What goes together better than massive crowds and highly infectious diseases? Measles + Superbowl

[TalkingDog]

http://www.fox59.com/sports/superbowl/wxin-heath-department-measles-infected-individual-visited-super-bowl-village-20120207,0,2215752.column

The Indiana State Department of Health has confirmed a person infected with the measles visited the Super Bowl Village at some point last week, where an estimated 250,000 people were throughout the day. The person is believed to have visited Friday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health officials were notified Monday.

It is not clear when the infected individual visited the Super Celebration, but the person did not go to any of the indoor events like the NFL Experience.

Since Tuesday, health officials have been working to head off the potential threat. Officials have gathered information and put together a timeline on when and where that person was inside the Super Bowl Village.

[xchrom]

1. please tell me the person didn't know. nt

[FSogol]

2. Was it Wes Welker?

[Ian David]

3. Here is a non-Fox link...

Health officials: Person with confirmed measles case visited Indy's Super Bowl Village
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/e6b3b9724d164eefbcb96e8b982cea19/IN--Super-Bowl-Measles/

[TalkingDog]

4. Thanks. Did not think to look for that.

n/t

[Kingofalldems]

5. When I was a kid in the 50's, everybody had the measles

Times have changed.

[grasswire]

6. aren't people vaccinated today?

I had measles as a child. Mumps, chicken pox, had it all.

[Snake Alchemist]

7. Almost all US citizens are. nt

[Kingofalldems]

8. Yes, they have vaccinations today

In the 50's kids were actually expected to suffer all three.

[IggleDoer]

9. It's very frustrating for me to see people refusing shots for their kids.

If enough people are immunized against Diesase X, the disease has no opportunity to spread. Without that, unimmunized people shouldn't go to crowded areas, take public transportation, etc. Yet the parents want to be normal. In the 60s, people in a wealthy community in CT didn't get polio vaccine, basically saying that it was a disease of poor people. One kid swam in a lake with others and got polio. Before expressing symptoms, he swam in a country club pool. Thirty kids got polio, all unimmunized.

We're all in this together. Everyone must do their share.