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This essay explores the convergence of natural history, environmental nostalgia, and nativism in the English country books of naturalist W. H. Hudson. In his efforts to chronicle rural England, Hudson blends empiricism and enchantment to commemorate local communities and to deploy them as a critique of urban modernity. This method both anticipates the anthropological turn of interwar English culture and reveals troubling resonances between environmental nostalgia and nationalist rhetoric.

Mumps is an acute viral disease characterized by fever and swelling of the parotid or other salivary glands. On May 1, 2015, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) confirmed a mumps outbreak at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. IDPH and the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District (C-UPHD) conducted an investigation and identified 317 cases of mumps during April 2015-May 2016. Because of sustained transmission in a population with high 2-dose coverage with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, a third MMR dose was recommended by IDPH, C-UPHD, and the university's McKinley Health Center. No formal recommendation for or against the use of a third MMR dose has been issued by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) (1). However, CDC has provided guidelines for use of a third dose as a control measure during mumps outbreaks in settings in which persons are in close contact with one another, where transmission is sustained despite high 2-dose MMR coverage, and when traditional control measures fail to slow transmission (2).

The Editors: \"About half of American women have an abortion at some point in their lives\": This statistic, released Dec. 4 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (\"Abortion rate plummets,\" National News, Dec. 5), stands in sharp relief to the continual debate about making abortion illegal. Yet people who provide abortions must do so behind bulletproof glass; physicians working in clinics in Georgia must enter and leave the buildings under armed guard, and none of us can predict whose daughters, wives and friends will be endangered when the next bomb explodes. The Editors: I was happy to see an article on breast feeding but disappointed in the headline: \"Breast-feeding advice may be tough to take\" (Living, Dec. 3). It was a negative slant on a very positive topic. Breast feeding is the best thing for babies. However, in today's society, women are given very little support for nursing their babies.