RCT3rox wrote:
Dirk_Ermen wrote:
TTD03 wrote:
^ I bet someone infected touched something, which then someone touched it, and then it spread that way.
Do a little research before telling something like that.
Measles is spread through the air. So by just talking, sneezing and coughing, people can get a hold of the virus. The worst thing is you're actually contaminating people, before you even know your sick. You start spreading the virus roughly 4 days before any of the symptoms show up and since Disney is a dreadful pit of stubborn parents with a gazillion children, all crammed up into one place. Stuff like that gets even spread around faster than wildfire.
Continuing from this, for those who don't quite understand the vaccination thing - even those vaccinated can still get the virus. It's not 100% reliable, it's just a strong protection against the virus, and when larger numbers of those media-fueled parents opt out of vaccinating their children from these (vaccine preventable!) diseases, the "herd immunity" among large crowds is lost. Thus increasing the chance for the disease to spread, especially to those too young to even be vaccinated. So, the virus most likely came in from an infected child, vaccinated or far more likely not, and inevitably began to spread it among the children in the park. This is why I hate this anti-vaxxer movement so much!
I just have a fear of needles so I hate vaccinations! And I hate people blaming the park for this, its not like Disney purposely gave one kid the measles and told him to go spread it, it is the parent's own fault if they knew he was sick and brought him to a hotspot for movement of viruses.