Update on emerging infections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Multistate outbreak of mumps--United States, January 1-May 2, 2006.

摘要

The CDC and state and local health departments continue to investigate an outbreak of mumps that began in Iowa in December 2005 and involved at least 10 additional states as of May 2, 2006.This report summarizes preliminary data reported to the CDC from these 11 states and provides recommendations to prevent and control mumps during an outbreak.Cases of mumps are reportable through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS).2 NNDSS reports are transmitted electronically to the CDC each week and include information on individual cases such as age, sex, date of symptom onset, vaccination status, and complications of illness. Mumps cases included in this report are those with onset from January 1 {MMWR week 1) through April 29 {MMWR week 17) that were reported to the CDC as of May 2 through the NNDSS (or the Iowa mumps outbreak-specific reporting system) from Iowa and 10 additional states that reported 1 or more cases of mumps epidemiologically linked to the multistate outbreak. In addition to cases reported through NNDSS,. to provide information rapidly during this outbreak, states have been reporting aggregate numbers of mumps cases and mumps-related hospitalizations and complications biweekly to the CDC. Cases reported in this manner through May 2, 2006, also are included in this report.