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A new government report revealed that over 900 dangerous and highly infectious cases occurred in 57 US migrant detention centers last year, almost half of them in Texas.

"Mumps is a highly contagious viral disease that can spread rapidly among people who live nearby," said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency doctor at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.

"According to the latest videos from the detention center recorded in the news, bad conditions can provide a mature environment for the rapid spread of the virus," Glatter said.

While the disease is usually seen in overcrowded living rooms, such as dormitories on campus, "this is the first case of outbreaks of mumps in a detention center," according to the research team led by Jessica Leung. He is an epidemiologist specializing in viral diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the USA. UU.

Glatter explained that mumps can be a very serious disease.

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"Mumps can cause serious and life-threatening complications, especially in people with weakened cancer, the immune system, young people and elderly patients," he said.

According to the CDC team, the first cases involved in this outbreak were reported last October as a group of five, "among migrants displaced between two detention centers" in Texas.

In December, eight other Texas detention centers and six facilities in five states reported a total of 67 cases of mumps.

Overall, between September 1, 2018 and August 22, 2019, a total of 898 cases of mumps were "confirmed and possibly documented among adult immigrants detained in 57 facilities in 19 states," the report said. . In addition, 33 staff members of the detention center are mumps.