There is no treatment, but most people recover fully in a few weeks. Complications are rare, but can include hearing loss, meningitis, and inflammation of the testicles or ovaries. The only way to prevent the mumps aside from avoiding people with it is to get the MMR measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
Though usually administered to kids, you can get the vaccine at any time. Booster doses are often recommended during outbreaks. Like mumps, measles was once widespread: in its heyday, nearly every American child got the disease before they turned 15, and an estimated to Americans died from it each year, according to the CDC. Widespread adoption of the vaccine in the s, however, led to the elimination of the disease from the U.
Not so fast: measles has made a troubling comeback of late, with a spike of cases reported in , and another in Many of this year's cases stemmed from an outbreak at two Disney theme parks in California. Phillips, making it "the ultimate transmissible infection. Complications can include diarrhea and ear infections, and in rare cases, life-threatening pneumonia and encephalitis. There is no treatment, which makes vaccination imperative. Experts have attributed the recent surge to lax vaccination habits ; in some cases, unvaccinated people may have picked up the bug overseas and spread it to communities of unvaccinated people.
Leading up to the discovery of the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis , this scourge killed one out of every seven people living in the United States and Europe. Antibiotics have dramatically reduced its deadliness, particularly in the US, and as recently as the s it was believed that tuberculosis could be eliminated from the world by , according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But it persists, killing between 2 and 3 million people globally each year.
Though most Americans don't consider TB a threat, it's showing signs of a resurgence: there were 9, reported US cases of TB in , according to the CDC, and deaths in the last year for which data are available.
Recent cases include three teachers at a New York City elementary school , a San Antonio high school student, and another high school student outside of San Diego. TB is caused when Mycobacterium tuberculosis attacks the lungs.
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Although the penetration of this news is yet to gain momentum, some people have already started believing it and are currently refusing to vaccinate their kids. This has paved the way for certain old diseases that were once very controlled and on the verge of eradication to resurface in the community. Owing to the spread of anti-vaccine news, many schools in Mumbai are not allowing health officials to vaccinate their students.
The situation in New Delhi is no different, wherein the latest reports suggest that thousands of children have missed out on vaccinations. This refers to a state wherein a high percentage of people in the community are vaccinated.
Thus, there are only a few people who can be potentially infected and the possibility of the spread of that disease is very negligible in that community. Herd immunity works for those diseases that are highly contagious. Another reason is the waning immunity in children as they grow old and missing the recommended booster doses which makes them susceptible to these infectious diseases. It is any untoward medical occurrence following immunization, which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with the usage of the vaccine.
Few vaccines may produce some undesirable side-effects, which are mostly expected, mild, and clear up quickly and can be managed well with adequate prior education and simple fever and pain medicines. The majority of events thought to be related to the administration of a vaccine are actually not due to the vaccine itself- many are actually coincidental events, others particularly in developing countries are due to human, or programme, error.
A case in the west wherein a child had died following immunization led the anti-vaxxers to kickstart the anti-vaccination movement.
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