Epidemic Mumps in Russia: Epidemic Situation, Key Challenges and Solutions

Abstract

Relevance.In the second decade of the 21st century, mumps still attracted the attention of scientists and practitioners around the world for their epidemiological, social and economic importance. A ubiquitous but uneven spread of mumps infection has been established in various regions of the world: in Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, Africa, America, and the Western Pacific.Aim. Present the current state of the incidence of mumps in the Russian Federation.Conclusions. The current epidemic situation of mumps in the Russian Federation is characterized by a predominance in the age structure of the incidence of adolescents and young working age people and determines the need to develop and introduce in medical activity a standard definition of the clinical case of mumps for correct verification of the diagnosis with subsequent laboratory confirmation. The emergence of the phenomenon of «growing up» of mumps and the registration of periodic outbreaks in the long-term practice of vaccination dictates the need to improve further vaccination prevention tactics with an emphasis on the adult population as part of the implementation of the National preventive vaccination calendar.

Keywords

• mumps
• morbidity
• vaccination
• circulating genotypes
• diagnostics