Mumps
Data from Health Protection Agency advance knowledge in mumps
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 22nd, 2007
Researchers detail in "Mumps and the media: changes in the reporting of mumps in response to newspaper coverage," new data in mumps. In this recent study, researchers in Birmingham, the United Kingdom conducted a study "To determine the links between national newspaper coverage of mumps after a press release and increased reports of clinical mumps cases. A cross sectional study involving people aged 15-24 years in the West Midlands, and U.K. and Wales."
"Reported mumps cases were obtained from statutory notifications of infectious diseases to the Health Protection Agency and reports to the Royal College of General Practitioners Weekly Returns Service. Data on newspaper...
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