mumps
Apr 10 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

The United States of America has kept a goal of completely eradicating the mumps virus from USA by 2010 but sudden rise in the number of mumps cases since 2006 has raised doubts whether the target could ever be met. There have been 6,584 cases of mumps.

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