America: Outbreaks of mumps infection

US health officials say mumps has broken out in the West and some people have been infected on flights, making medical officials involved. Up to this point, the epidemic has spread to nine states, including Inowa state, with 815 people infected.

A baby has mumps
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Mumps is caused by a virus that causes an infected person to cough and sneeze. The manifestation of this disease is fever, headache and swelling below the jaw. Mumps is more likely to spread through salivary glands, sneezing and being close to people who have the same illness as regular flu.

Turning eggs of this disease can lead to deafness, meningitis, genital inflammation and pancreatitis.

According to the statistics of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mumps has erupted in nine states of the United States: Inowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

In there, there are two states with the highest number of people being inowa, up to 815 people, Nebraska has 110 people.

This is the largest epidemic period in the US since 269 cases of the disease in Kansas in 1988-1989.

In response to this situation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must adopt a new system to prevent this virus from leaving passengers on board.

Currently there are no cases of death due to this disease. But researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are monitoring and finding ways to prevent the epidemic like the transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus.

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