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"We're trying to figure out why is it happening, why is it happening in Iowa and why is it happening right now. We don't know," she said.

CDC spokeswoman Lola Russell said the federal agency has no answers yet. But Quinlisk said one theory is that the infection was brought over from England _ perhaps by a college student _ because the strain seen in Iowa has been identified by the CDC as the same one that has caused tens of thousands of cases of the mumps in a major outbreak in Britain over the past two years.

"It may have been a college student, since we did see the first activities on college campuses, but we can't prove that,"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/31/AR2006033101016.html

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because the strain seen in Iowa has been identified by the CDC as the same one that has caused tens of thousands of cases of the mumps in a major outbreak in Britain over the past two years.

Thanks for posting that information. I haven't heard of an outbreak before this story.

The parents that opted out of vaccines may be sorry. The worse thing for a mother is watching her child suffer...and from the posts here, it sounds like it's not pleasant to go through.