The PPJ Gazette

The Vaccine Reaction

An enlightened conversation about vaccination, health and autonomy

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An outbreak of mumps in 12 fully vaccinated students attending University of Florida, Gainesville campus had county health officials scratching their heads at the end of May. According to one media report, an Alachua County Health Department spokesperson said, “These things do happen. It’s a phenomenon that’s not completely understood,” and reassured students and the public that the MMR vaccine “is a safe vaccine, it’s an effective vaccine even though we have this outbreak in a group of vaccinated individuals.¹

By June 4, WTSP News reported that the number of students on campus with mumps was up to 24 and a University of Florida spokesperson confirmed that all 24 students were vaccinated. Reportedly, a Florida Department of Health spokesperson said the majority of outbreaks in the U.S. are identified on college campuses and that most mumps cases go undiagnosed due to a lack of testing and reporting.²

2019: More Than 1,000 Mumps Cases Reported in U.S.

According to the CDC, “mumps outbreaks are not reportable” but there have been 1,002 cases of mumps infections reported in 42 states and the District of Columbia between Jan. 1 and May 24, 2019 in the U.S., with an increase of 266 reported cases since Apr. 26. The CDC.gov website states that, “mumps outbreaks can still occur in U.S. communities of people who previously had one or two doses of MMR vaccine.³ The CDC also states that, “a person with two doses of MMR vaccine  has about an 88 percent reduction in risk for mumps.”⁴

The numbers of mumps infections reported in the U.S. this year exceeds the number of measles cases reported this year, which totaled 931 cases confirmed through May 31, 2019.⁵ According to one page on the CDC’s website, “mumps outbreaks are not reportable.”⁶ However, according to another page on the CDC’s website, mumps has been a reportable disease for many years.⁷

For more than a decade, there have been continuing reports published in the medical literature documenting mumps outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations. Most of the individuals who got mumps had received one or two doses of MMR vaccine, especially college students and young adults.⁸

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References:

  Barbara Loe Fisher, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, measles, MMR, mumps, mumps outbreaks, National Vaccine Information Center, NVIC, The Vaccine Reaction, TVR, University of Florida, University of Iowa, vaccine failure