Mumps outbreak on Vancouver Canucks

[puffnstuff]

Just got an email from the Calgary Board of Education, titled 'Mumps'

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by SofaProfessor

Sounds like the Wheat Kings and Oil Kings are also having a bit of an outbreak. Both played the Tigers prior to the diagnosis. It would be interesting to see if any of these teams were in a locker room or common area prior to the Canucks at one of the arenas where the WHL teams share the space with the NHL teams.

I know there are investigators that are able to track these outbreaks to the source. It would be really funny if there was a travelling puck bunny passing around the mumps. I guess that better than some of the other things you can pick up...

The WHL Giants play out of the Langley Events Centre.

[Beninho]

This will be celebrated by all of the Pro-tank Canuck fans. Least we don't play them again, classic dirt nucks.

[SofaProfessor]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

The WHL Giants play out of the Langley Events Centre.

Yeah I was more thinking like the Wheat Kings or Tigers playing as a visitor in Edmonton or Calgary right before the Canucks but it doesn't look like the Canucks have been through Alberta since early January.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by dash_pinched

Yup - My father-in-law's brother contracted polio as a young kid, he was lucky it was a mild case, but do we really want to see the return of these types of diseases?

The lower mainland is a hotbed of this quackery. And it's mostly the idiot wealthy white population responsible:

Vaccination rates among kindergarteners in Vancouver-area schools are too low, in many cases, for the schools to benefit from "herd immunity," according to a new study by University of B.C. researchers.

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a community are vaccinated that it's difficult for a disease to spread, offering protection to those unable to be vaccinated due to health conditions or age.

The study, published in Vaccine Reports, looked at how many kids were up-to-date with recommended vaccinations for measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis and other diseases in the 2013-14 school year in urban areas of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.

Rates varied widely by school and type of vaccine — from as low as 15 per cent up to 100 per cent compliance with recommended vaccinations.

The study found most schools don't have immunization rates of 90 per cent, which is generally needed for "herd immunity," said author Julie Bettinger, a researcher at UBC and the Vaccine Evaluation Centre of B.C. Children's Hospital.

"For parents … I would hope that it maybe shakes their complacency a little bit," she said.

"If I'm at a school where the coverage is coming in at 60 per cent, if someone brings measles into my school, my kid may not be protected if he's not gotten the vaccine."

Private schools lower, Richmond higher

The study was exploratory, prompted in part by vaccination discussions in the U.S. following a major measles outbreak linked to Disneyland last year.

Bettinger and her co-author looked for variations in vaccination rates by location and type of school — and found pockets of low vaccination, including the North Shore.

Private, non-religious schools had vaccination rates about 10 per cent lower than public schools, they found. (Religious private schools were not statistically different from public schools.)

One Waldorf school had such a low rate of vaccination, it had to be excluded from the analysis.

By location, Richmond schools had the highest vaccination rates of any local health area in the study, with more than 90 per cent of kids fully vaccinated.

Other areas were compared to the bar set by Richmond:

West Vancouver and Bowen Island — 30 per cent below Richmond rates.
North Vancouver — 20 per cent below Richmond.
Vancouver Downtown Eastside — 12 per cent below Richmond.
Vancouver Westside — 10 per cent below Richmond.
(The study did not provide absolute vaccination rates for schools in these areas, only their performance relative to Richmond.)

I'm going to guess this came from a kid from someone's private school.

[squiggs96]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Five players affected. Game will be cancelled.

Per Fan960

Official Statement

Where does it say game will be cancelled?

[polak]

A culling might a good way to end this Anti-Vax nonsense once and for all.

[trumpethead]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Five players affected. Game will be cancelled.

Per Fan960

Official Statement

Who is reporting "game will be cancelled?"

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Five players affected. Game will be cancelled.

Per Fan960

Official Statement

according to the official statement, players who are infected will be set under quarantine for five days, or until it is confirmed that they are free of infection.

The trade deadline is five days away. How much of an effect will this have on the Canucks' ability to conduct business?

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

The lower mainland is a hotbed of this quackery. And it's mostly the idiot wealthy white population responsible:



I'm going to guess this came from a kid from someone's private school.

Jesus...60% is dangerously low. Like similar to 3rd world vaccination rate low.

I agree. #### the anti-vaccine movement.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by squiggs96

Where does it say game will be cancelled?

It was briefly mentioned as a possibility on the radio. Turns out not to be the case.

[ComixZone]

Flames just played in Vancouver...hopefully they're taking it seriously.

[Locke]

The Vancouver Canucks....what a bunch of mumps!

[billybob123]

Mumps outbreaks can happen even in vaccinated populations. There are several reasons it can happen, and none of them have anything to do with ineffective vaccination. I suspect these players have all been vaccinated.

It's a very infectious virus.

[Azure]

As funny as it may seem, as mentioned above, simply being vaccinated isn't enough good enough. Sad that we have so many stupid people in the world who think they understand medicine more than every health official in the world basically.

I for one would have zero problem with deporting anyone who isn't vaccinated.

[Jordan!]

What mumps??

[Vulcan]

The good old days where as a kid I got measles, mumps and chicken pox. Getting mumps was thought of as good thing as it immunized you from getting it as an adult.

[shadowlord]

Originally Posted by bigrangy

haha too bad, this might convince dim Jim to sell instead of going for it

If anything, it will make Benning think that the Canucks can still make the playoffs once they get over this and the team is fully healthy.

He'll "buy, buy, buy" at the deadline.

[Reggie Dunlop]

"Hi guys! Why all the long faces?"

-- something Matthew Tkachuk should say

[spuzzum]

I don't wish this virus on anyone as an adult. It can be quite dangerous. I hope it clears up for even the Canucks without incident.