Health officials on Saturday confirmed seven mumps cases at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Houston. The Houston Health Department said in a press release that the cases involved seven adults who were detained during their infectious period -- meaning there was no evidence that anyone outside the facility was infected. The Houston Health Department describes mumps as a “vaccine-preventable contagious disease caused by a virus.”Outbreaks of infectious illness have been very much in the news of late. At least 44 people in Washington and Oregon have fallen ill in recent weeks with the extraordinarily contagious virus, which was eradicated in the U.S. in 2000 as a result of immunization but arrives periodically with overseas travelers. Someone who has no immunity can get sick up to three weeks after they have been exposed to the virus.

Source: Fox News February 09, 2019 22:41 UTC