Mumps Quotes

The vaccine is working. The vaccine certainly was made to cover this particular strain because it's a fairly common strain of mumps. - Patricia Quinlisk

The mumps vaccine is still protecting huge numbers of people. We would expect thousands of people to get sick if there wasn't good immunity in the community. - Jane Seward

The investigation continues into why the sudden increase of mumps this year. - Melaney Arnold

The Department of Public Health is recommending that anyone who has only received one vaccination for mumps see a physician for the second dosage because of the number of mumps cases. - Melaney Arnold

The college environment is a perfect situation for infectious disease, especially mumps. It's shared through saliva, so students can get it by living so close together, coughing, sneezing, sharing drinks and kissing. It tends to spread fairly easily. - Kevin Teale

The best protection against the mumps is the vaccine. We have seen that work successfully in the past. So we hope that will be successful this time. - Julie Gerberding

The best protection against the mumps is the vaccine. - Dr. Julie Gerberding

On one hand, given the 800-plus cases we have, this is a serious situation. On the same token, we have 2.8 million people in Iowa, so the relative risk of any single visitor getting mumps is extremely low. - Kevin Teale

On a scale of diseases, mumps is not what we would consider one of the more serious. - Doug Schultz

None of them are confirmed and, as a precaution, we asked the school district to send the letters to parents as an alert to the symptoms of mumps of their children. - Barbara Cole