Düsseldorf (CNN) — before a trip to the UK should be ensured in a vaccine against mumps. In the past few weeks, a comparatively large number of Mumps disease occurred on the island. Because in the UK only since 1988 against mumps is vaccinated, currently mainly young people in the ATER between 15 and 24 years fall ill so Burkhard Rieke of the Centre for travel medicine (CRM) in Düsseldorf. Whereas mumps among girls and women usually without damage, the disease in men can lead to infertility. «In Germany we advise therefore to vaccinate children in the second year of life against mumps», explains Rieke. Vaccination takes place twice – usually in the first and in the second half. She then holds a lifetime. Girls against mumps should be vaccinated to contain the disease transmitted by droplet infection from person to person. «This is a way out of solidarity.» On the other hand, also boys against the rubella be immunized, are dangerous for children in the belly of the mother. Usually, vaccination against mumps, measles and rubella is carried out at the same time. Strictly speaking each person» should be vaccinated against mumps for 35 years», says Rieke. Older people would have usually gone through the disease because it has been vaccinated during childhood is not against mumps. The health insurance companies bear the cost for the vaccine.