Three students from Lexington-based University of Kentucky have come down with the mumps. In response, the university hosted a vaccination clinic Wednesday, according to a LEX18 report.
While the university is offering mumps vaccines to all UK students with a valid ID, a WKYT report notes the three students with the mumps had previously been vaccinated.
According to the CDC, two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine are 88 percent effective at preventing the mumps.
"The majority of students on campus are likely to have received two doses of MMR vaccine," Derek Forster, MD, an infectious disease expert with UK, told WKYT. "For students who have not received two doses of the vaccine or are unsure if they've received two doses of the vaccine, we are recommending that they do that."
UK officials told WKYT more students could fall ill because of mumps' long incubation period.
UK is not the only university dealing with mumps outbreaks recently. This month, mumps was spreading at three Indiana universities, and in August 2015, nearly 100 cases of mumps were reported at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Per the CDC, 69 cases of mumps have been reported to the CDC as of Feb. 5.