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Bag Ban Public Testimony 7/24/2012 – 9/17/2012 <br /> <br />Now Keene, of the Oregon Public Health Division, and fellow sleuth Kimberly Repp, of Oregon Health <br />and Sciences University, have cracked a case and told a real-life detective tale worthy of Roueché. <br /> <br />Writing in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, availablehere online, Keene and Repp explain how in <br />October, 2010, a group of Oregon soccer players, 13 and 14 years old, and some adult chaperones, came <br />down with norovirus during a tournament in Washington state. <br /> <br />One of the girls apparently was infected prior to the trip, and began vomiting and suffering bouts of <br />diarrhea late Saturday in the chaperone's hotel bathroom. The girl, who had no contact with her <br />teammates after she became ill, was driven home in the morning. <br /> <br />But a reusable grocery bag filled with snacks -- packaged cookies, chips and grapes -- had been in the <br />bathroom. The rest of the group ate that food during a Sunday lunch, and other members of the team <br />were ill by Tuesday after they had returned to Oregon. <br /> <br />In investigating the outbreak, Keene and Repp found no connections to any other norovirus illnesses at <br />the team's hotel, the tournament, or the restaurants where they had eaten. It wasn't until they learned <br />about the bag in the bathroom that a "coherent story" emerged, Keene and Repp wrote. <br /> <br />Two weeks later, matching viruses were found on the sides of the bag. <br /> <br />Although the first sick girl said she did not touch the grocery bag, Keene and Repp theorize that the <br />viruses had aerosolized in the bathroom and settled on the sack and the food items inside. <br /> <br />"What this report does is it helps raise awareness of the complex and indirect way that norovirus can <br />spread," said Aron Hall, DVM, MSPH, with the Division of Viral Diseases at the Centers for Disease <br />Control and Prevention, in anaccompanying editorial. And in what could be a blurb for a Roueché-style <br />book, Hall adds that the study authors provide "a fascinating example of how a unique exposure and <br />transmission scenario can result in a norovirus outbreak." <br /> <br />The investigation shows how this tenacious virus "finds a way to move from host to host, even when <br />those hosts have no direct contact with one another," Hall added. <br /> <br />Keene and Repp observe that "incidentally, this also illustrates one of the less obvious hazards of <br />reusable grocery bags." <br /> <br />While they recommend not storing food in bathrooms, the study authors say "it is more important to <br />emphasize that areas where aerosol exposures may have occurred should be thoroughly disinfected; <br />
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