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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A case of mumps at a summer camp has spread to more than 1,000 people in New York and New Jersey, most of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, officials said.
It is the largest outbreak of the virus since 2006, when the United States saw a resurgence of mumps with 6,584 cases nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control said Monday.
The New York-New Jersey resurgence has been traced to an 11-year-old boy who attended a summer camp for Orthodox Jewish boys in Sullivan County, N.Y., last August, CDC officials said. The boy had recently returned from Britain, where a mumps outbreak had sickened 4,000 people, CNN reported Tuesday.
Mumps is a contagious disease for which there is a vaccine, though the vaccine is not 100 percent effective. Symptoms include fever, swelling of the jaw and cheeks and muscle ache. Severe complications include swelling of the brain, testicles or ovaries and deafness.
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