Assessment Infectious Incident for Mumps Epidemic Among Iraqi Population in Statistics Center of the Iraqi Ministry of Health Publisher



Niazi SM¹ ; Salman AI¹ ; Gatea AA^{2, 3}
Source: Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Published:2019

Abstract

Mumps is an infection caused by a virus. It is sometimes called infectious parotitis, and it primarily affects the salivary glands. The aims of this study to assess the prevalence of mumps cases according to some demographic characteristic during the study period in Iraq.Retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the Statistics Center of the Iraqi Ministry of Health to collect the data samples. Samples were included age, region, gender, and years. Samples were collected within six months after obtaining the ethical clearance from the Ministry of Health before conducting the research. data entered to Excel sheet and then analysis by Stata version 13. The table and graphs were used to present our data. Higher frequency of infection occurred in the age groups less than 15 years. Half of infection 56.9% (73939/129971) were occurred in 2016 and less 1% (1295/129971) in 2014. The incidence rate of infection among people per 10000 of the were 0.58%, 0.49%, 0.52%, 0.36%, 3.5%, 19.5% and 9.79% respectively. Male cases of infection were more than female. the higher percentage of infection was occurred during 2016. Try to educate people about the risk of mumps through seminars. © 2019, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. All rights reserved.