{"id":5385,"date":"2016-12-24T04:10:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T09:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2016-12-23T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T14:13:21","slug":"mumps-cases-spike-raising-questions-about-need-for-vaccine-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5385","title":{"rendered":"Mumps Cases Spike, Raising Questions About Need For Vaccine Boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rebecca Smith, Side Effects Public Media published by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Brown, a sophomore at the University of Missouri, got a fever over Thanksgiving break. Soon it became painful to bite down, and her cheek began to swell. A trip to her physician confirmed it \u2014 Caroline had the mumps. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/mumps-cases-spike-raising-questions-about-need-for-vaccine-boosters\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=39732455&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8jbjNrIB24jWEqzXCDNszPBauBPKJkP0gjNzQ0770r_gvsGfPlLq96Kr38i-PAxGMQulNLD0Bz7lnXtRWojtgNTe0sYA&amp;_hsmi=39732455\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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