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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2017

Investigating Mumps Outbreak in Odisha, India: An Opportunity to Assess the Health System by Utilizing the Essential Public Health Services Framework.

Sourabh Paul, Preetam B Mahajan, Jyotiranjan Sahoo, Vikas Bhatia, Sonu H Subba

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Outbreak Investigation of Mumps in a Rural Area of Patna District of Bihar, India.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine · 2025
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  3. Mumps Seroprevalence in Vellore, South India: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sourabh PaulDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.
Preetam B MahajanDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.
Jyotiranjan SahooDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.
Vikas BhatiaDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.
Sonu H SubbaDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

AbstractMumps, a highly contagious, viral disease continues to spread in India, despite the availability of an effective vaccine. On November 24, 2014, we came across a suspected case of mumps in a 6-year-old boy in a village of Bhusandapur sector in Odisha. We initiated an outbreak investigation using standard techniques outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. This uncovered a silent epidemic of 94 case patients (10% of the population) over a period of 16 weeks between August and December 2014, in a single village, which had gone completely unnoticed by the existing health-care system. Since the index case was one of the last case patients of the outbreak, investigation for immediate control was not a priority. Hence, we have used this exercise to describe the outbreak and identify causes that led to its nondetection. Age range of the case patients was between 2 and 40 years; 85 (90.4%) case patients were ≤ 15 years of age and 54 (57.4%) were females. Average duration of illness was 9 days. No child had received the mumps vaccine. The outbreak had led to a community expenditure of 538 USD. The exercise uncovered a number of weak links in the essential public health services within the health-care delivery system in the area.

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Contact TracingDisease OutbreaksPublic Health SurveillanceAdolescentAdultChildChild, PreschoolDelivery of Health CareFemaleGovernment ProgramsHumansIndiaMaleMumpsMumps virus

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