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i'm susan hendriks with a "360" news bulletin. we begin with the custody fight over baby veronica. the little girl's biological father is refusing to follow a ruling by the u.s. supreme court that she go back to her adoptive parents in south carolina who raised her until she was 2. dustin brown faced an oklahoma judge today after that state's governor ordered he return to south carolina to face charges of parental interference. he was granted bail and faces a hearing in october. the u.s. forest service says the massive rim wildfire burning at yosemite national park was started by a hunter who didn't control an illegal fire. the fire now covers more than 237,000 acres and is 80% contained. a nightclub that calls itself one of the "jersey shore's" most talked about venues is related to a suspected mumps outbreak. officials say all but one are
Little-girlRulingCustody-fightFatherNews-bulletinBaby-veronicaUs-supreme-courtSusan-hendriks360JudgeParentsHearingallan chernoff is there to tell us how serious this is. >> well, suzanne, health officials are saying this is the worst outbreak since 2006 and focused on communities of orthodox jews. the mumps outbreak is spreading through the orthodox jew wish communities of brooklyn and northern new york affecting school-aged boys. the vast majority of the victims officials say had been vaccinated. >> the mumps vaccine is not as good as other vaccines, and it is not 100% effective, but on the order of 80% or 90% effective, so that means 1 in 10 may not be vaccinated. >> reporter: the disease is spread through mmucus, and it i spreading through brooklyn
SuzanneOutbreakCommunitiesHealth-officialsMumps-outbreakAllan-chernoffOrthodox-jews2006OfficialsVictimsMajorityNew-yorkstriction. all right. this is something you don't hear. i'm reading it. you don't hear about this every day. there's a mumps outbreak. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is joining me with more on this. >> you don't hear about this much because is kids get vaccinated. it appears in this community in new york there was not -- there was at least a small percentage, but a sizable percentage who were not getting vaccinated. here's what we know. in this community in new york and this was a religious jewish community, there are now 494 confirmed cases of mumps. that's a lot. 494 and keep in mind that usually there's like maybe 200, 300 case ayear in the country. in this one outbreak, nearly 500 confirmed, 38 more probable, and 41 under investigation. and it appears to have started with a kid from britain who came to summer camp in upstate new york and now we've got upstate new york, brooklyn, we've got new jersey.
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