Concern high on LI over mumps outbreak
Quick ReadThe acting commissioner of the county's Department of Health Services has issued a statement calling on parents to heed vaccination timetables.
Photo credit: AP File | Microbiologist Sandy Jirsa looks at samples marked with an "M" for mumps. (March 30, 2006)
Virus trackers in Nassau County are awaiting laboratory results on "a few" possible cases of mumps as their counterparts in Suffolk urge parents to make certain their children's vaccinations are up-to-date.
Public health authorities' concern is high because New York remains in the grip of a major mumps outbreak in Orange and Rockland counties where more than 1,100 cases, largely concentrated...
