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The following specified Reportable Disease, (Ontario Regulation 559/91 and
amendments under the
Health Protection and Promotion Act, 1990) is to be reported to
the Local Medical Office of Health.
Note: Diseases marked
 and all respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions should be
reported
immediately to the Medical Officer of Health by telephone. Other diseases are to
be reported
the next working day.
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Surveillance Case Definition: Mumps
Confirmed Case - Clinically compatible signs and symptoms with:
(a)isolation of the virus from appropriate specimens or
(b)demonstration of a four-fold or greater increase or seroconversion in
serum mumps IgG antibody titre or
(c)positive mumps-specific IgM antibodies or
(d)an epidemiologic link with another confirmed case.
Confirmed Case - Clinically compatible signs and symptoms with:
(a)fever,
(b)tender self-limited swelling of the salivary glands lasting two or
more days; and no other apparent cause. |
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Mumps factsheet |
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