Two confirmed cases of mumps and an additional suspected case have been reported at three UC Berkeley student residences, university officials said Friday.
The confirmed cases involved students living at the Clark Kerr residence hall and the Cloyne Court student cooperative, said University Health Services Medical Director Brad Buchman in an email addressed to the UC Berkeley residential community.
Two students who are roommates have the infection at Clark Kerr and are in the process of being moved to a quarantined space in the Clark Kerr area, said Marty Takimoto, director of marketing communications for Residential and Student Services Programs at UC Berkeley. Takimoto said he did not know how many students have the infection at Cloyne.
There is also a “suspected case” at Cheney Hall in the Unit 1 Residence Hall that has not been confirmed, and, if the infection spreads, residence hall leadership will “come up with another option” to quarantine students, Takimoto said.
People born on or before 1956 are considered immune to the viral infection, which is spread through droplets of saliva or mucus from an infected person. But students born after that date need to have at least two mumps, measles and rubella vaccinations to be protected, the email states.
Symptoms of the infection include “fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue and loss of appetite, swollen or tender salivary glands under the ears or jaw on one or both sides of the face,” according to the email.
Custodians at Clark Kerr will be cleaning common areas more extensively this week , and Takimoto said student should be sure to take precautions such as washing their hands, covering coughs and staying home if they feel unwell.
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Why do you need to vaccinate? Does mumps kill? Tell those infected to take care of themselves with lots of chicken bone broth soup, filtered H2o, C, probiotics, no sugar or caffeine and lots of rest. They will have lifelong natural immunity and a bolstered immune system after recovery! I don’t think the vaccine provides this benefit but instead may cause vaccine related complications. Go to NVIC.org for more info.
Please study the history, function, and mechanism of that vaccine before posting THIS, which has no basis whatsoever.
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I would be willing to bet that those two cases were previously vaccinated.
And can you PROVE vaccines are safe and effective? What about the safety of multiple vaccines given at one time? Where are those studies? What about studies of side-effects going beyond a few weeks or months? What about the LIFETIME of ailments/diseases/autoimmune issues people carry around after uptaking these toxic serums?
You apparently don’t understand the biological processes behind vaccinations; it does the same thing is building up antibody resistance to the disease without having to deal with the harmful effects of getting the disease itself. You essentially skip the first exposure and go straight to the second exposure’s whose antibody count is exponentially higher. It’s funny, yet also dreadfully appalling and disheartening, how ignorant people think they know more than proven science.
I can tell you for a fact that some of these above students have been ‘vaccinated’ against mumps before.
You do realize getting the vaccine is like having the first exposure to the disease without actually getting the harmful effects of it right? That’s all there is to it; it’s a dead version of the disease itself in the vaccine thereby inherently endowing immunity. See, look how ignorant you look now, saying something that vaccines already do. Oh and your “a bolstered immune system” argument makes no sense, antibodies only focus on a particular disease, they aren’t all encompassing. Get your facts straight before you post more idiotic stuff.
They should Reiki Pilate the mumps out of their Core.