Recently infected students may be barred from attending end-of-year events like commencement. According to the Crimson, Paul J. Barreira, MD, director of Harvard’s Health Services, who has previously expressed serious concern about the outbreak, wrote in a statement to the campus community, “Given the two- to three-week incubation period for the mumps virus, students who come down with the virus at this point may have to miss certain end-of-year and/or summer activities if they are ill.”
Students have also been encouraged to refrain from traveling abroad if they’ve experienced mumps symptoms.
The CDC reports that two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine are 88 percent effective at preventing the mumps.
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