Japanese boy baseball player causes measle outbreak..after competing in the
By ersmommy1
@ersmommy1 (12587)
United States
February 25, 2008 6:31pm CST
little League World Series.A boy with measles who was on the Japanese team in last year's Little League World Series triggered a U.S. outbreak of the disease that sickened at least six other people, health officials said on Thursday.
Measles cases were diagnosed in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Texas after the boy, age 12, traveled from Japan while ill with the highly contagious viral illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report that tracked the outbreak's course.
2 responses
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
26 Feb 08
A small outbreak of measles at last summer's Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., apparently originated with a 12-year-old Japanese player whose sibling had experienced symptoms in Japan the month before.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/20080222_Little_League_measles_came_from_Japan.html
According to this website the child was not sick...his brother had been sick with measles a month before. Whenever there is travel, this type of thing can and will happen.
My son had chickenpox, he spent the whole day at daycare...and I was told when I picked him up..he had a heat rash -- it was July. 40 kids at the center got chickenpox from him.
@jhl930 (3601)
• United States
26 Feb 08
Wow...I had not even heard this story yet...I don't really know why they would let the kid play baseball if they knew that he had the measles because no baseball game is that important....I mean they had to know that the other kids would get it if they knew that he had it..and im not a doctor but don't you know when your child has something wrong with them
