Total cases reported. Hover for specific points. Data based on Columbus Health reports.
The first case of mumps detected in Franklin County was January 7, with the first case at OSU detected February 10. Columbus Public Health provided the final update on October 1, 2014. No new cases had been reported since September 17.
At Ohio State University, the virus has affected 163 students, 34 staff members, three family members, and 55 with strong ties to the university community, with 84.7 percent of affected OSU-affiliated persons living in Columbus.
Change in cases reported, since last report.
Mumps patients associated with the outbreak include 298 females and 186 males across three states, from four months to 80 years of age, and 15 were hospitalized. Cases include residents in Columbus and Athens, Belmont, Cincinnati, Clark, Cuyahoga, Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Hamilton, Licking, Madison, Morrow, Muskingum, Pickaway, Ross, Tuscarawas, Union and Warren counties. The majority of cases were in Columbus and Delaware counties. The outbreak affected one person in Indiana and one person in North Carolina.1
Three to four cases were reported at Columbus State Community College.2 Cases were reported in six3 Olentangy Local Schools, leading school officials to tell students without the vaccine and with compromised immune systems to stay home.4 One member of the Ohio House staff was diagnosed with mumps.5 One case diagnosed at each of J.W. Reason Elementary, Brown Elementary and Hilliard Bradley High School in Hilliard.6
Local patients had the following complications:
The final update to this page was posted October 4, 2014.
Symptoms of the mumps are similar to the flu and include a fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, swollen glands under the ears or jaw, and a loss of appetite. Symptoms may last seven to 10 days.
If you suspect that you are sick, visit a doctor. They will provide you with better information than random pages on the Internet.
The mumps virus spreads through saliva and through aerosols produced by sneezing or coughing. Sneeze only into your shoulder or elbow - not your hands. Wash your hands. The virus takes 22 days to incubate and infect your body.
If you have not already received both doses of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, you should get vaccinated as soon as possible. If you have received only one dose, you should receive your booster dose as soon as possible.
The MMR vaccine can be obtained at your family doctor, pharmacy clinics, university student health services (OSU), and Columbus Public Health walk-in clinics. The CPH walk-in clinic is held at 240 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, Ohio at the following times:
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Mumps can lead to deafness and infertility. Vaccination protects you and your children against that risk. Unvaccinated people can transmit mumps. After both doses, the MMR vaccine is only 85%-95% effective, meaning that people who have been vaccinated are still susceptible. If you fail to get the MMR vaccine, you are endangering not only yourself but everyone you may come in contact with.
If your objections to vaccination are based on the idea that vaccines may cause harm, rest assured that the thiomersal mercury preservative was removed from vaccines in 2001. On top of that, Andrew Wakefield's research alleging a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism was unethical, fraudulent, irresponsible, falsified and abusive. He planned to exploit the vaccine panic for profit. If you follow Jenny McCarthy's anti-vaccine advice, your child is more at risk of a debilitating illness than of acquiring autism.
Quoting from a discussion thread linked earlier:
... vaccinating a child is like playing Russian roulette with a gun that has hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of chambers and only 1 bullet.
However, choosing not to vaccinate swaps that gun out with another, with stupendously fewer chambers and also more bullets.
Vaccines save lives.
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