More students excluded from regional schools in response to mumps outbreak
An additional 129 Spokane Public School students have been excluded from five schools following new cases of mumps.
Spokane Public Schools has confirmed mumps cases at 14 schools. A total of 346 unvaccinated students have been asked to stay home.
Fifty eight Central Valley School District students have been excluded. There are eight probable or confirmed cases of mumps in that district.
During an outbreak, the heath district has the authority to order unvaccinated students and staff to stay home for 25 days. Any school with two or more confirmed cases of the mumps is put under an exclusion order to force those who have not received the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine to stay home.