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02-12-2010, 12:03 AM
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/mumps-outbreak-in-brooklyn-jewish-communities/
More than 1,500 people in the metropolitan area, mostly Orthodox Jewish boys and young men in Brooklyn, have contracted mumps in the worst outbreak in the United States since 2006, city and federal health officials said Thursday.
The outbreak originated at an all-boys religious summer camp in Sullivan County last June, and since then has spread through the tightly knit Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park, city officials said. Only 3 percent of the transmitted cases have been outside religious communities, health officials said.
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The outbreak has been traced to an 11-year-old boy who returned last June from a trip to Britain, where there had been an epidemic of mumps
More than 1,500 people in the metropolitan area, mostly Orthodox Jewish boys and young men in Brooklyn, have contracted mumps in the worst outbreak in the United States since 2006, city and federal health officials said Thursday.
The outbreak originated at an all-boys religious summer camp in Sullivan County last June, and since then has spread through the tightly knit Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park, city officials said. Only 3 percent of the transmitted cases have been outside religious communities, health officials said.
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The outbreak has been traced to an 11-year-old boy who returned last June from a trip to Britain, where there had been an epidemic of mumps