Mumps continuing to increase

Written by Dawn O'Shea Monday, 02 November 2009 15:35

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Mumps cases have increased by more than 400 per cent over the same period last year, according to the latest figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).
The figures show the rise of cases highlighted by health officials earlier in the year continues, with 3,592 cases of mumps reported as of October 10 2009, compared with 626 cases for the same period in 2008.

So far in 2009, there were 2,966 more cases of mumps than in 2008.
Earlier this year, the Director of the HPSC Dr Darina O’Flanagan described the current outbreak of mumps as a “shameful thing to happen” given the presence of the MMR vaccine.

Meanwhile, the latest HPSC figures show there are 212 more cases of noroviral infection than the same period last year, rising from 1,342 in 2008 to 1,563 so far in 2009. The figures also show a fall in the number of hepatitis C cases up until the beginning of October, falling from 1,174 in October 2008 to 1,010 in 2009.

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