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The record of candidate Clinton may be controversial, but in her six short years New York Democratic Senator Clinton, 58, has earned respect from both parties. Assigned to the Armed Services Committee, she has mastered issues like how to retain Guard and Reserve troops, pushed through legislation educating military families...
The largest outbreak of mumps to hit the U.S. in nearly 20 years has epidemiologists scratching their heads. After all, the illness, with its characteristic inflamed salivary glands and swollen throat, is relatively rare in North America, thanks to the widespread availability of a childhood vaccine against measles, mumps and...
So what gives? There are several possibilities. Doctors know that about 5% of the 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...
College students may be at particular risk because they live in such close quarters and are more likely to exchange saliva. Nancy Anderson, director of the Longbrake Student Wellness Center at the College of Wooster in Ohio, advises students to wash their hands regularly and avoid going out if they...
But as the Iowa outbreak reminds us, the mumps vaccine is not 100% effective. That's why you have to stay alert in an outbreak, even if you've been inoculated.