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Post by blny on Feb 24, 2017 16:50:45 GMT -5
One confirmed diagnosis, multiple instances of displaying symptoms.
Not good. They need to isolate, and destroy anything that might be contaminated. The threat that it could travel to another player on another team, during a game, is very real.
I contracted mono in my 30s, and not from the method most attributed lol. Near as I can tell, I came in contact with something in a public place that had been contaminated by someone. It really can happen that easy. Now, imagine 40 players, sweating and interacting, drinking from bottles, etc during a game. It's a recipe for a league-wide epidemic.
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Post by franko on Feb 24, 2017 18:00:13 GMT -5
were they in that bar in TO?
if they don't decide they have a chance to say "it's over" now . . .
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Post by PTH on Feb 24, 2017 18:40:31 GMT -5
One confirmed diagnosis, multiple instances of displaying symptoms. Not good. They need to isolate, and destroy anything that might be contaminated. The threat that it could travel to another player on another team, during a game, is very real. I contracted mono in my 30s, and not from the method most attributed lol. Near as I can tell, I came in contact with something in a public place that had been contaminated by someone. It really can happen that easy. Now, imagine 40 players, sweating and interacting, drinking from bottles, etc during a game. It's a recipe for a league-wide epidemic. The real source of all this is bad parenting through non-vaccination.
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Post by blny on Feb 24, 2017 18:47:49 GMT -5
One confirmed diagnosis, multiple instances of displaying symptoms. Not good. They need to isolate, and destroy anything that might be contaminated. The threat that it could travel to another player on another team, during a game, is very real. I contracted mono in my 30s, and not from the method most attributed lol. Near as I can tell, I came in contact with something in a public place that had been contaminated by someone. It really can happen that easy. Now, imagine 40 players, sweating and interacting, drinking from bottles, etc during a game. It's a recipe for a league-wide epidemic. The real source of all this is bad parenting through non-vaccination. While I agree that the anti-vaccinate movement is full of crackpots, I'm not sure the players have parents young enough to be part of it. Buddy of mine had mumps 12 years ago. He'd been vaccinated. It doesn't always work, and sometimes they wear off. I've also had whooping cough since turning 30, and had been vaccinated for that.
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Post by seventeen on Feb 25, 2017 2:08:15 GMT -5
That'll save on condoms.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Feb 25, 2017 9:55:18 GMT -5
The Medicine Hat Tigers are getting ravaged too. At last count there were seven players and coaches impacted.
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Post by Gogie on Feb 25, 2017 11:16:13 GMT -5
The real source of all this is bad parenting through non-vaccination. That's not completely true. In fact, there's a cohort of people who through no real fault of theirs or their parents are not fully immunized. The current protocol is to vaccinate for mumps twice, once between the age of 12-15 months and again between the age of 4-6 years. However, anyone born between 1970 and 1994 (which includes many current NHL players) only received one vaccination as that was the accepted protocol back then. That leaves many of them vulnerable to mumps. Old fogies who were born before 1970 (like me) are assumed to have had mumps (again like me) and therefore considered immune.
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Post by seventeen on Feb 25, 2017 14:45:15 GMT -5
Thanks Gogie. You're a wealth of medical information. Do you have expertise in that field, ie. medical degree?
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Post by Gogie on Feb 25, 2017 15:10:24 GMT -5
Thanks Gogie. You're a wealth of medical information. Do you have expertise in that field, ie. medical degree? I stayed at a Holiday Inn express last night. No, I have no medical expertise/experience but my wife studied microbiology and has always maintained an interest/reasonable degree of knowledge about all things health. I actually just read about the mumps issue this morning in the Globe & Mail and did a little more research since I have a 3-year old granddaughter and I like to understand that sort of stuff.
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