Ongoing mumps outbreak in a student population with high vaccination coverage, Netherlands, 2010

J Whelan; R van Binnendijk; K Greenland; E Fanoy; M Khargi; K Yap; H Boot; N Veltman; C Swaan; A van der Bij; H de Melker; S Hahné

doi:10.2807/ese.15.17.19554-en

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Ongoing mumps outbreak in a student population with high vaccination coverage, Netherlands, 2010
J Whelan^1,2 , R van Binnendijk¹ , K Greenland^1,2 , E Fanoy^1,3 , M Khargi⁴ , K Yap⁵ , H Boot¹ , N Veltman¹ , C Swaan¹ , A van der Bij¹ , H de Melker¹ , S Hahné¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (National Institute for Public Health and Environment, RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands ² European Programme for Interventional Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ³ Municipal Health Service (MHS) “Midden-Nederland”, Zeist, the Netherlands ⁴ Municipal Health Service (MHS) “Hollands-Midden”, Leiden, the Netherlands ⁵ Municipal Health Service (MHS), “Zuid-Holland West”, Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: Whelan J, van Binnendijk R, Greenland K, Fanoy E, Khargi M, Yap K, Boot H, Veltman N, Swaan C, van der Bij A, de Melker H, Hahné S. Ongoing mumps outbreak in a student population with high vaccination coverage, Netherlands, 2010. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(17):pii=19554. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.17.19554-en Received: 21 Apr 2010

Abstract

Since December 2009, mumps incidence has increased in the Netherlands. As of 20 April 2010, 172 cases have been notified on the basis of laboratory confirmation or linkage to a laboratory-confirmed case. Of these, 112 were students, the majority of whom had been vaccinated (81%). Although outbreaks in vaccinated populations have been described before, risk factors for exposure and susceptibility, and dose-dependent vaccine effectiveness in a student population of this nature are relatively unknown.