Correction

In an article headed ‘Mumps cases surge by 900% in just six years’ published in the Irish

Independent on March 18, 2017, a HSE spokesperson was quoted as saying that “most (of those affected) had not had the MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine”.

This was incorrect, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre has stated that only 10pc of those infected with mumps had not had the vaccine in 2015.

The statement made by the HSE referred to an outbreak of measles in Ireland in 2016 involving 40 cases occurring in the South, South-East, North-East, East and Mid-West, and not to any increase in the recording of mumps.

We are happy to correct the record.