An outbreak of the Mumps seems to have originated at an all-boys religious camp in Sullivan County in June and has now spread through tightly knit Orthodox Jewish communities in Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park. Only 3 percent of the cases in the outbreak have been reported outside Orthodox communities, health officials said.
There have also been cases in Orange and Rockland Counties, in Ocean County and surrounding areas in New Jersey and in Quebec, health officials said.
Most of those infected are boys from 7 to 18 years old and the outbreak appears to be spreading through Orthodox Jewish schools for boys, where students may spend as many as 14 hours a day together. Most of those infected had been vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella, but the mumps portion of the vaccine is less effective than the other parts. “This is a well-vaccinated .....MORE
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