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Did CNN Rename Mumps?

It’s a common anti-vaccine myth that we rename diseases to make them go away. It helps them explain the control, elimination, and eradication of diseases, since many of them don’t believe that vaccines actually work.

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Simply saying that your article is “Fact Checked” doesn’t make it so…

Now imagine that “they” actually found evidence that we did rename vaccine-preventable diseases!

That would be something, wouldn’t it…

Did CNN Rename Mumps?

Of course, they haven’t.

The original CNN story about the USS Fort McHenry stated that the sailors and Marines had parotitis, which was “due to an outbreak of a viral infection similar to mumps.”

Why didn’t they just say that they had mumps?

Because that’s not what they were told by the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet.

“… a military medical team specializing in preventative medical care is expected to deploy in the coming days to make an assessment if further steps may be needed, according to the official.”

US warship quarantined at sea due to virus outbreak

It may come as a surprise to some people, but many viruses and bacteria can cause parotitis. And until the outbreak was further investigated, they didn’t know if it really was mumps or another condition.

Since then, the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) has stated that “based on clinical presentation and laboratory testing, these cases are currently classified as probable cases of mumps.”

Still, a very small percentage of the sailors and Marines on board have gotten mumps. That’s because vaccines work, even when they don’t work perfectly well.

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