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Nobody was too alarmed in December when the first few cases were reported to Iowa's health officials; the state has been averaging about five cases of mumps a year, so the numbers weren't out of line. By last week, however, the total of known and suspected cases had jumped to 365, and the disease seemed to be spreading to nearby states. Illinois and Kansas have reported spikes in mumps infections. And although the outbreak appears to have started in college-age adults, the latest information shows that mumps is now striking people ages...
What's really puzzling about the Iowa outbreak is that most of the victims seem to have been fully vaccinated. Among those whose medical history has been confirmed, two-thirds got both of the required doses...
...people who get vaccinated against mumps don't get protected because their immune system, for some reason, doesn't respond. Or perhaps their protection has weakened over the years, or maybe the vaccine is not as effective as it should have been. To sort all that out, investigators from Iowa and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are studying residents who became ill as well as those who were exposed to the virus but didn't get sick...
Schwartz was fired from TRW, but later submitted a report on the matter to Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.) and to Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who jointly commissioned the investigation of the matter by the GAO in 2000. The case was headed by Ghoshroy, then...
...people, more than 800,000 crisscrossing legally every day, some walking, more driving, not to mention the 4,600 or so who hop the fence and get caught a few minutes or hours later. The ones who make it are on their way to jobs as meat packers in Iowa and carpetmakers in Georgia and gardeners in Pennsylvania. They want to be in the U.S. so badly they will risk the scorpions and the rattlesnakes, the surveillance cameras and underground sensors; they will fold into hidden compartments behind the dashboard of a car or in the belly of a tanker...