Case study: Norovirus spread among girls soccer team..
The Journal of Infectious Diseases carries a story about the 2010 Beaverton Bug Fest, in which a mini-epidemic of norovirus spread itself among an adolescent girls basketball team as they traveled to Seattle for a tournament. Norovirus causes gastrointestinal distress, cramping, vomiting, diarrhea and all sorts of things you want most on a road trip.
The virus was said to be spread by means of a REUSABLE grocery bag containing cookies which the girls were sharing.
No one really knows which came first: the sickness among all the girls or the ‘buggs’ on the RECYCLABLE grocery bag. But the fact that it made the news might be causing a reconsideration of the virtues of those reusable bags. The epidemiologists are suggesting bleach, which would make all bags white.
Pharmer says those plastic grocery bags from Walmart (the ones banned in San Francisco) are pretty good barf bags.
