ARCHIVED - Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Mumps Outbreaks in Canada

Appendix 5: Algorithms for the Health Care Setting

Figure A: Management of health-care workers who are close contacts of a case of mumps

* May need a second dose of MMR vaccine for measles protection.

** Contacts should be excluded from day 10 after the first contact of a case to day 26 after the last contact with a case (where day of exposure is day 1). The HCW may have returned to work prior to receiving the second dose of MMR.

Figure B: Assessing health care workers for susceptibility to mumps

* May need a second dose of MMR vaccine for measles protection.