A quote from insite:

"The University has been advised that there are five unconfirmed cases of mumps within the University community"

Five, eh? Considering I know four people who either have had or currently have mumps, then I must be doing pretty well in the Warwick popularity stakes. Either that, or the outbreak is slightly bigger than they're letting on.

According to an NHS document I found on the web earlier on this evening, there was a national immunisation programme in November 1994, which innoculated all children between the ages of 5 and 16 with the MR vaccine (that's measles and rubella, no mumps), which I guess would have included most people currently at Warwick.

"22.1.12 A national immunisation campaign was implemented in November 1994 throughout the United Kingdom. Over 8 million children aged between 5 and 16 years were immunised with measles/rubella vaccine"

However, I'm pretty sure I didn't have this (we only had the BCG jab in 1994) and instead had the MMR vaccine a few years later during secondary school.

Incidentally, the MMR was only first administered in the UK in 1988, so given that the "single mumps vaccine has never been used as part of the national immunisation schedule", its likely that none of us were give it when we were young. Nowadays it seems children get two doses before they enter school, unless their parents are put off by all the media scaremongering, obv.

Basically all of this, together with the various other stories I've heard off friends, has left me kinda confused whether or not I or anyone else I know has actually had any kind of mumps vaccine at all. Perhaps someone can help me out?