The Super Bowl village doubles as a disease pit!

Did you attend the thrilling championship game between the Giants and Patriots in Indianapolis?  Did you participate in all the fun activities in the Super Bowl XLVI while staying in Indiana?  Well, then you just may have put yourself at risk.  CDC officials say that someone at the Super Bowl had a very infectious strain of measles, so up to 200,000 people could have been exposed to the dangerous virus.  That kind of makes the Giants victory look like nothing in the grand scheme of life, eh Pats fans?

“Even though measles has been declared eliminated in the U.S., it circulates globally, and when we get an importation or somebody gets it while traveling, there is potential for cases to spread.  The vast majority of measles cases we see are in people who are unvaccinated,” said Dr. Greg Wallace, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Viral Diseases.  He added, “There’s no way for us to possibly track down and contact everybody who may have been at a big public event like this, so we’re hoping media alerts will heighten awareness.  At the very least, this is a good opportunity to remind people to make sure they are up to date on their immunizations and remind parents to get their children vaccinated.”

There were only 220 cases of measles in the country in 2011, but that number was the highest in 20 years.  People before 1957 are considered immune to the disease, as they have probably already had it, but in these immunization-happy times, anyone whose immunizations have lapsed is considered at risk for picking up the disease.  Indeed, the first case of Super Bowl infection has already shown up.  That’s why I watch all major sporting events at home.

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