28 People Sickened With Mumps At Ohio State University
The number of people at Ohio State University with the mumps has increased to 28 – 23 are students, one is a university staff member, one person is related to an OSU student and three others have strong ties to the university, outside of it. Three people were hospitalized for 24 hours because of the disease.
Staff members, faculty and students received emails about the outbreak, and were willing to answer questions on how the mumps would be contained. According to various on and off campus messages on social media and posters, the best practice to reduce the spread of mumps was to practice good personal hygiene and use the cough-and-sneeze etiquette.
Currently, there are no planned offers for booster vaccines, which is a tactic rarely used but as shown as promising during a recent New York study in a small, laid out population.
Columbus Public Health disease investigators have not been able to link the cases with each other, as to how the sick got that way… other than the majority of the victims are students at the university.
Symptoms of the mumps include headache, fever, tiredness, muscle aches, swollen and tender salivary glands, and loss of appetite.
The mumps virus has a very long incubation time, and some infected persons may not show signs of the disease but transmit it.
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