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Breaking the chain of transmission: Immunisation and outbreak investigation

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The most likely cause of this outbreak was intense social mixing during the party and the dense communal living environment of the students, and high coverage of MMR vaccination in childhood did not prevent an outbreak of mumps in this student population.

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