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Until 1988, mumps was not a notifiable disease in Britain, so accurate figures on the number of children contracting the disease are not available. Hospital records show, however, that about 1200 admissions to hospital each year in England and Wales were due to mumps or one of the complications of the infection.
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Gilbert, P. (1995). Mumps. In: The A-Z Reference Book of Childhood Conditions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7098-5_29
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