7-9-19 mumps reported at fdl child care center

The Fond du Lac County Health Department says they received a report of mumps in a child at a Fond du Lac child care center.  The Public Health Department sent a letter last week to parents of children who attend Jesus Little Lambs Childcare in Fond du Lac that  the child is under two years old and did get a first dose of the mumps vaccine.   The Fond du Lac County Health Department released a letter addressed to parents stating that the facility doesn’t have a record that their child has received the MMR vaccine.  The letter states that the best way to protect against mumps disease is the Measles Mumps Rubella vaccine. It added that a child attending Jesus Little Lambs Childcare can not return to the childcare center until he/she has received one dose of MMR vaccine or the incubation period time between July 10 thru July 23 has passed.  The MMR vaccine is given in doses. The first dose is recommended when children are 12 – 15  months old and the second dose can be given after age four.