U.S. Sailors Are Still Getting Sick Aboard The USS Fort McHenry

Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) prepares for an underway replenishment-at-sea with USNS Kanawha (T-AO 196) and USS New York (LPD 21) Jan. 9, 2015. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan B. Trejo

Business Insider: Sailors are still getting sick as a suspected mumps outbreak tears through a US warship

* The USS Fort McHenry has been quarantined at sea for months due to a viral outbreak of what is being called a "probable case of the mumps."
* Since the story broke earlier this month, two more servicemembers have fallen ill, raising the total number of affected personnel to 27, Fifth Fleet told Business Insider.
* "It is not common for us to see outbreaks of vaccine-preventable viral infections," the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery told BI.

A US Navy warship deployed to the Persian Gulf has been stuck at sea for months due to a viral outbreak of what's likely the mumps, and servicemembers are continuing to fall ill as the medical workers try to get the situation under control, Fifth Fleet told Business Insider Thursday.

As of Saturday, 27 sailors and Marines aboard the dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry have been diagnosed with parotitis, which the Navy described in a statement earlier this month as a "viral infection which has symptoms similar to mumps."

Viral parotitis is an infection of the saliva glands on either side of the face that's typically caused by the mumps.

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WNU Editor: I think it is time for this ship and its sailors to come back home.