Tippecanoe County Health Department will administer free vaccinations on the campus of Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind., after university officials reported five confirmed or probable cases of the mumps in university students on Wednesday, according to a release.
The clinics will be held April 12 and April 18. The free measles, mumps and rubella vaccines will be made available to faculty, staff and students who do not have two documented MMR vaccinations, were born after 1957 or have not had mumps in the past.
Resurgent cases of the mumps have been reported on several other college campuses in recent months, including Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Boston University, SUNY Buffalo in New York, and the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.
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