AP Explains: Why there's a US surge in mumps despite vaccine

Friday, February 17, 2017 - 17:31 in Health & Medicine

NEW YORK (AP) -- Fifty years ago, mumps was once a childhood rite of passage of puffy cheeks and swollen jaws. That all changed with the arrival of a vaccine in the late 1960s, and mumps nearly disappeared....

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