Close contact in wrestling keeps germ fighters busy - (Billings Gazette)
February 9, 2008 – 6:23 pmhttp://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/09/news/local/18-prepwrestling_g.txt
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/norovirus/wrestling-and-norovirus/index.html
Wrestling is a contact sport.
Dr. Chill Yee, a sports medicine fellow with the Montana Family Medicine Residency in Billings, was quoted as saying, “You can imagine with such a high-contact sport how easily things are spread.”
The story says that Yee was among medical professionals charged with screening more than 700 athletes in the state wrestling tournament at MetraPark Arena this weekend for communicable diseases, with Yee stating, “This is unique because we have such high contact. Another event here, say rodeo or arena football, you’re not going to have that contact even though it’s a dense crowd.”
A nasty bug like norovirus, known for inducing vicious vomiting and diarrhea, could flash through a tournament’s rosters, on to its fans and ultimately become what health officials call endemic in virtually no time.
Norovirus has done it before. Officials halted classes and sporting events in Arlee last month after the bug sickened almost 200 […]
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