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Visitor's chickenpox raises alarm in Barrow (Alaska)

AlaskaDenise

AlaskaDenise

In Memoriam
A Skyview High School (Soldotna) basketball player set off alarms in Barrow this month when she came down with chickenpox right after arriving in the Arctic coastal city for a weekend tournament. Worried team chaperones weren't particularly happy with the treatment the girl received from the locals: She was quarantined for most of the weekend at the insistence of Barrow High School officials until her scheduled flight home, and doctors at the hospital refused to examine her. Students from other schools teased the Skyview Panthers about being infectious, but the girls fought back: "They went out at pregame and they did this little chickenpox cheer and they had put little red dots with marker on all the players. It was pretty funny," said chaperone Darren Jones.

http://www.adn.com/3437/story/1143549.html

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Re: Visitor's chickenpox raises alarm in Barrow

Re: Visitor's chickenpox raises alarm in Barrow

The town the girl was from is not an isolated community. Her hometown (Soldotna) is dominated by oil industry employment.

However, in Barrow many people live in small cramped homes, so it's not surprising that officials took measure to prevent the spread within the community.

below is from
http://www.dhpe.org/infect/Chicken.html
Each year in the United States, 4,000 to 9,000 persons are hospitalized with chickenpox, and up to 100 persons die. Those at highest risk for complications are newborns, persons with weakened immune systems, and adults. Although adults make up fewer than 5% of chickenpox cases in the United States, they account for half of the deaths from the disease.
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