2006 mumps outbreak occurred despite high vaccination rate

Submitted by Glutes Health on April 14, 2008 - 03:00.

Mumps, once a common disease of childhood, was on track to be eliminated in the United States by the year 2010, thanks to widespread use of two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine in early childhood. Then, inexplicably, the largest U.S. mumps epidemic in two decades occurred in 2006.