Pacific Islanders hit the hardest in Johnson County mumps outbreak
CLEBURNE -- Outbreaks of mumps in Johnson County and Arkansas have had similar impacts on each community’s Pacific Islander populations, officials said this week, though the cases in North Texas have been much less widespread.
Nearly half the people diagnosed with mumps in Johnson County — 29 of 61 — are of Pacific Islander descent, said Dr. Elvin Adams, a county health official.
Pacific Islanders make up about 0.5 percent of the county’s population, or about 800 people, according to census data.
In Arkansas, the Marshall Islands community had accounted for about 60 percent of the state’s 2,220 reported cases as of Friday, according to a report in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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