Kevin Teale
Kevin Teale
exposed people planes
These people may have exposed other people on those planes or in these airports.
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College graduation, high school proms, we're not recommending any be canceled. We just want to ensure that people are aware of the risk.
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Fortunately, for most people, mumps is a fairly mild illness and they get over it quickly. Some people may have it without even any symptoms and not even be aware that they're spreading it.
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When it comes to infectious disease, college campuses are sort of a perfect storm - close quarters, where people are coughing and sneezing, where they are not thinking much about hygiene and think nothing of sharing a beer glass or sharing saliva via kissing. All those kinds of things that would easily spread disease happen on college campuses and probably contributed to what we saw all these cases in Iowa.
far signs slow year
This year so far we're well over 500 and there's no signs that it's going to slow down soon.
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We're focused on stopping it right now. Maybe after we have it under control we'll explore the origins of the outbreak ... even if we knew what was causing it, it wouldn't change how we are addressing the situation.
hate
We'd hate to say we're out of the woods.
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We used to see about five cases a month. At the tail-end of December we realized we had a situation on our hands.