Ongoing Mumps Outbreak Hits Toronto; Three Cases Diagnosed in City
Posted on: Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 15:00 CDT
TORONTO (CP) - Canada's ongoing mumps outbreak has hit the country's biggest city.
Toronto Public Health confirms that three cases of the infectious disease have been diagnosed in the city. The outbreak began in Halifax in mid-February. Nova Scotia has had the bulk of the cases, with 222 confirmed as of last Friday.
New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Ontario and British Columbia have also seen cases in people who can be linked to the Nova Scotia outbreak.
It is thought that most of the cases are young adults who would have only received one dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in childhood.
Since the mid-1990s, jurisdictions have moved to a two dose regime after learning that for some people, one dose wasn't sufficient to protect against infection.
At least one province, Nova Scotia, is planning a catch-up campaign to offer a second dose of vaccine to health-care workers and to university aged young adults.
Symptoms of mumps include aches, pains, fever, loss of appetite and, in about 40 per cent of cases, the hugely swollen saliva glands that give mumps its characteristic chipmunk-cheek look.
Source: Canadian Press
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