Open AccessMumps outbreaks across Canada, 2016 to 2018
Author(s) -
Myriam Saboui,
Susan G Squires
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
canada communicable disease report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1481-8531
pISSN - 1188-4169
DOI - 10.14745/ccdr.v46i1112a10
Subject(s) - outbreak , medicine , public health , environmental health , incidence (geometry) , vaccination , demography , virology , physics , nursing , sociology , optics
An increase in mumps incidence was observed in late 2016 (365 cases in 2016 compared to 59 cases in 2015). This unusual level of mumps activity prompted the Public Health Network Council and the National Advisory Committee on Immunization to request situation awareness updates from the Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases (CIRID) at the Public Health Agency of Canada in 2017 and 2018.