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Scotland: 2015 mump- Surge in cases

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Source: http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...yers-offered-jags-after-mumps-cases-1-3727771

Hibs players offered jags after mumps cases
DAVID HARDIE
07:30Wednesday 25 March 2015

Hibs players have been offered booster jags after goalkeeper Tomas Cerny became the second Easter Road star to be struck down by mumps in the space of just weeks.

Teenage midfielder Sam Stanton was ruled out of action last month after contracting the illness and Cerny has now missed Hibs? last three matches after also being afflicted...
 
Source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/health/big-rise-mumps-cases-especially-5477025

Big rise in mumps cases, especially among those in their teens and early twenties
09:21, 8 April 2015
By Vivienne Aitken

THERE have been more cases of mumps diagnosed in Scotland so far this year, than in the whole of 2013. Doctors say those affected may not have been vaccinated.

MORE Scots have got mumps in the first 12 weeks of this year than in the whole of 2013.

Health chiefs have seen 242 confirmed cases so far in 2015, compared to 239 in 12 months two years ago.

The total number of cases last year was 286.

More than two-thirds of this year?s patients ? 68 per cent ? are young adults aged 15 to 24. Doctors say mumps often spreads at universities and other places where young people mix socially...
 
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