Vaccine fails-more than one thousand get mumps in NY City in last six months

March 8, 2010

News Worldwide — According to the news in US above one thousand individuals in New York and New Jersey got ill with mumps in last six months. The reason is a vaccine failure that was introduced for the prevention of mumps.

It has been told by the US news world that all of the people who got infection with the mumps virus are of the Hasidic or Orthodox Jewish population. The news in US also states that the mumps infection was started in a summer camp made for Orthodox Jewish boys in Sullivan County in NY. The news in U.S. Reveals that the officials have associated the occurrence of this disease to 11 years old boy who participated in the camp. He had lately arrived from U.K. where this disease was spread in almost four thousand people

It has been told that this boy was fully vaccinated for the prevention of mumps. The vaccine is now declared a failure by CDC.

Mumps is a viral disease, which is highly contagious. The early symptoms are fever, headache, aching of muscles and loss of appetite. In the later stages, it has severe effects that include swelling of jaws and cheeks, deafness and inflammation of brain and testicles or ovaries.

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