Health officials issued a new advisory after two cases of mumps were reported at Berkeley High School.<\/p>\n
Leaders have not announced if the patients are students or faculty, but they do say it’s likely the second person got it from the first patient.<\/p>\n
California mandates that children receive two doses of the mumps vaccination before entering kindergarten; however, experts caution that receiving the vaccine does not guarantee immunity against the disease.<\/p>\n
“Even if you get two doses, [you] might be infected and not know it,” Dr. Yvonne Maldonado said.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Yvonne Maldonado, Stanford professor of pediatrics and epidemiology, joins Raj Mathai to discuss a health advisory issued after mumps cases reported in Berkeley.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Mumps is highly contagious, and symptoms include swollen glands, painful jaw swelling, fever, tiredness, loss of appetite and headache.<\/p>\n
Mumps also has a long incubation period.<\/p>\n
Health leaders are asking families to be on the lookout for any symptoms through March 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health officials issued a new advisory after two cases of mumps were reported at Berkeley High School. Leaders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[764,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-215053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-berkeley","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}