Measles at Super Bowl Festivities Spark Fear

Measles at Super Bowl Festivities Spark FearSuper Bowl festivities are slowly becoming reason of tension for health experts as well as people in the region as they fear that the measles affected person might have exposed others as well to the disease at the downtown Indianapolis storefront that he visited during last week's Super Bowl festivities, which housed a television studio, a hat shop and a nightclub.

According to the reports received on Friday, Marion County health officials, who earlier claimed that the measles diagnosed person visited the Super Bowl village, are now saying that he visited the Huddle in the former Nordstrom's store on Feb. 3.

Concerns of health officials are rising higher as approx 200,000 people visited the Super Bowl Village that day to enjoy the festivities.

Regarding the situation, Indiana health officials have already notified the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and health departments in New York and Massachusetts about the diagnosed case and the possibilities of spread that they are worried about.

Rather Indiana State Department of Health has also sent out a statement on Feb. 3 i. e. two days earlier of the day when New England Patriots and the New York Giants squared off for Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.

The department has strictly advised all the Hoosiers and out-of-town guests to stay extra cautious about their health and to practice best health defense to enjoy their safest Super Bowl Sunday.

"Unfortunately, even when you have very, very small numbers of people who are susceptible to measles, because it is so contagious, when it is let loose in a crowd it's very likely" that people will become infected", said Dr. Edgar Marcuse, a Professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle, who is based at Seattle Children's Hospital.