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Friday 23 October 2020
A spike in the number of people presenting with the highly infectious condition started in late 2018.
It follows a sharp increase in the number of cases of the illness last year.
Symptoms of mumps include fever, headache and painful swollen salivary glands.
The HSE said has said the increase in numbers is linked to the spread of misinformation about vaccines on social media.
Dr Kevin Kelleher of the HSE said Andrew Wakefield’s research linking vaccines to autism has been “utterly discredited”.
In September, Health Protection Surveillance Centre was notified of 69 cases of mumps.
The HSE is still trying to determine how many people have been affected by the outbreak.
People aged 15 to 29 years old have been affected by the outbreak, the HSE has said.
There have been a number of mumps outbreaks among adults in the US recently, including on college campuses.
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And the HSE wants them to get the MMR.
In total, the Council for Foreign Relations has tracked 432 cases since 2008.
A court has ruled that a 5-year-old boy must get his booster shots, but should vaccinations for children be compulsory across the board?
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
You can catch up on the main points here.
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