By Kathleen Lucadamo for the New York Daily News
More than 900 New Yorkers - mostly Orthodox Jewish men - have been infected with mumps since an outbreak this summer, the city Health Department reported Tuesday.
That's the most cases since 1979, when there were 157, and comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 1,500 mumps cases in New York and New Jersey as of January.
Officials Eye Bump in Mumps in City Jewish Nabes
By Kathleen Lucadamo for the New York Daily News
More than 900 New Yorkers – mostly Orthodox Jewish men – have been infected with mumps since an outbreak this summer, the city Health Department reported Tuesday.
That’s the most cases since 1979, when there were 157, and comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 1,500 mumps cases in New York and New Jersey as of January.
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