More Mumps Cases At Chapman University Confirmed
The outbreak started in late January among law students and later spread to the undergraduate population.
Orange County Register:
Chapman University Mumps Cases Increase To 12
Mumps cases at Chapman University have reached 12, public health officials said Wednesday. Jessica Good, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Health Care Agency, said there are six lab-confirmed cases and six probable cases. Last week, with the tally of cases at nine, Chapman held two vaccination clinics for students and staff to receive the Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) vaccine. (Perkes, 4/12)
In other news from across the state —
Los Angeles Times:
Laguna Beach Continues To Resist The Commercial Side Of Recreational Pot
The Laguna Beach City Council on Tuesday continued its hard-line stance against marijuana-related businesses, whether for medical or recreational purposes. The council unanimously favored a proposed ordinance that would ban commercial cultivation, distribution and sales of recreational cannabis, which California legalized with passage of Proposition 64 last November. (Alderton, 4/12)
The San Diego Union-Tribune:
National Group Sues Poway, L.A. School Districts Over Hot Dogs, Bacon, Sausages, Bologna
Hot dogs, bacon, sausages, bologna and all other processed meats are in the crosshairs of two new lawsuits that target lunch menus for the Poway and Los Angeles unified school districts.The suits, filed Wednesday in Superior Court by the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C., are the advocacy group’s planned first volley of litigation on this issue. They ask the court to bar the districts from serving meals with cured and otherwise modified sources of animal protein on grounds that such foods violate the California education code’s requirement that all school foods served to students be of the “highest quality” and “greatest nutritional value possible.” (Sisson, 4/12)