Mumps cases continue to increase in San Diego County
]By PAUL SISSON
JULY 24, 2019 6 AM
San Diego County has tallied 23 mumps cases so far this year, already matching the tally for 2016, which was the highest number seen in the last 25 years.
In a recent advisory to all local doctors, county health officials state that seven of the 2019 cases have come from detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center. That facility, along with other similar facilities in other regions, has seen an increase in several forms of communicable illness, especially the flu, since the federal government has halted thousands of Central American asylum seekers at the border.
This year, three additional residents have come down with the mumps after visiting foreign countries where the disease is more prevalent than it is in the United States.
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