Mumps, a common kid's viral disease, has overlapping symptoms, so many people might follow a "let's wait and see" approach.

Also, medical practitioners may not immediately put on their bioharzard protection suite when someone walks in with swollen lymph nodes and nausea.

That's why it is important to take news of incidents and location of the occurrence into consideration, both as a patient and as medical staff.

Mumps is commonly vaccinated against when children are very young. It’s one of the Ms in the MMR vaccine.

It’s 2025 my guy. Can’t count on kids getting vaccinated anymore.

Depends where you are. I guess the U.S. has an outsized representation online but it’s less than 5% of the world.

Up here kids are not permitted to go to school without it. There’s some exceptions but they’re, in practice, very difficult to secure.

The vast majority are. Most parents are not idiots.

That may not be true. Most people are idiots, and most parents are people.

why, then, are measles cases on the rise in north america?

Its true that they are but the number of cases is still just around 1,000 which is not many in the context of the overall population, and only about 1/10 of the numbers we saw in the late 1980/early 1990s.

Most parents still get their kids vaccinated. You hear about the few oddballs that don't when their kids get sick and it's trumpted all over the news as if it's a new pandemic.