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JAMA. 2006;295:2712-2717.

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MMWR. 2006;55:559-563

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On May 18, this report was posted as an MMWR Dispatch on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).

CDC and state and local health departments continue to investigate an outbreak of mumps that began in Iowa in December 2005¹ and involved at least 10 additional states as of May 2, 2006. This report summarizes preliminary data reported to 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 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 CDC . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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