More than 200 Mormon missionaries ill after virus hits Provo MTC


http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55566345-78/missionaries-mtc-health-madigan.html.csp


Didn't anyone tell them not to eat from a buffet?

"Sick individuals are being treated by skilled doctors and are receiving the best care available," Trotter said in a statement.


The best care available, you nay-sayers.

Note that the Church's spokesman on diarrhea is Scott Trotter.

Apparently it's norovirus, which is extremely hard to eradicate once it gets into a closed environment like the MTC. As new kids come into the MTC, they will be exposed and get sick in wave after wave. The MTC's leadership needs to get on this and get the place cleaned up or they'll be putting hundreds (or thousands) of people through needless illness and trauma.

Use their mighty priesthood powers to heal the building and its occupants, or rely on the arm of flesh and deal with it the same way the corrupt gentiles would?

I think that they'll do nothing for as long as possible. Then, when they get national publicity or a class-action lawsuit, they'll do whatever is cheapest.

The missionaries can wake up an hour earlier in the morning. Armed with toothbrushes and spritz bottles, they can spit shine that building in no time.
And more importantly, at no cost.

Shhhhhhhhhh! Don't give them any ideas! You know the COB monitors this place! They'd be all over that plan.

Lol! Symptoms of the Spirit.

ROTFLMFAO

But those 'skilled doctors' must be doing something special for the missionaries. Probably the best places to rest, the best water, the best aspirinn and the best Immodium. Nothing but the best.

Oops, nothing's available right now.

I knew several people who have worked in the MTC and there is ALWAYS some outbreak or other going on this time of year.

Yes. It was really bad the summer of 2009. That's when they instituted the "drop off at the curb" family good-byes.

Sounds like the bug around here. Hits 80-90% of all persons. The epidemic is even hitting the courthouse. DW was sick all Christmas week. Of eleven in the household 10 have been/are sick, leaving only yours truly not down yet. If this is the same bug, the MTC will have at least a thousand cases at the same time! Big problem at the MTC is that they will have to delay classes and not let anyone new in for at least three weeks. The epidemic here reminds me of the Asian Flu of 1957.

The senior's nursing home in my community has been closed to outside visitors twice this winter because of Norovirus. And in the local schools, the one I teach at included, there have been lots of absences due to it. So far, I'm home free (there, now I've jinxed it...)

Understatement of the decade:

"It’s a very contained population," Madigan said. "They, frankly, don’t get out much."

Wow. Norovirus. They need help. Norovirus is a fecal-borne illness that is so powerful that a drop of an infected person's emises, no matter out of which end, can become aerosol and infect a circle of people around them, since fewer than 20 virus particles can infect a person.

For those who don't mind grossness, you may read on: "Transmission through fecal-oral can be aerosolized when those stricken with the illness vomit and can be aerosolized by a toilet flush when vomit or diarrhea is present; infection can follow eating food or breathing air near an episode of vomiting, even if cleaned up. The viruses continue to be shed after symptoms have subsided and shedding can still be detected many weeks after infection."

As a state-certified busy-body, I felt it necessary to write to the MTC with advice on how to beat the disease, suggesting that missionaries be allowed to stake out areas on the premises outdoors where they can either vomit or defecate to their hearts' content, thus preventing the illness from swirling around in the stale air of the facility and infecting others. Any outbreaks among the area residents due to the missionaries' use of the outdoors would be justified in that it would be very likely that those infected community residents had been party to objecting to the church's project to build the high-rise MTC, and therefore had it coming.

Realizing that the church is a charity operation, I did not ask for remuneration for my professional advisory services.

To continue the grossness....

Because someone who has had Norovirus can continue to shed the virus for at least thirty days, and because the virus has been observed in studies to remain infective on surfaces well beyond three weeks, you pretty much have to bleach down bathroom and kitchen surfaces in your home regularly and continue to be vigilant about hand washing for at least a month after the someone in your family has had the illness.

The only things that kill Norovirus are bleach and heat.

How can this happen? This is the one and only twoo training camp in the heart of Zion for "God's Army"...

All those serial masturbators are being visited with a sore affliction a.k.a. diarrhea. Nothing guilt-trips, witch-hunts, and a couple of bottles of olive oil can't solve.

Wait a minute, norovirus happens on cruises. lol

I remember back in late 1996 I came to the MTC and they had implemented a temporary ban on shaking hands. To avoid passing around the cold/flu we were to bump elbows if we felt a need to have a physical greeting.

I sure hope they have a paid janitorial staff at the MTC and don't just make the mishes in training do all the cleaning.

Oh the joy of those who get assigned to clean chapels on the local level!

You are sure to be exposed to the Norovirus sometime during your "volunteer" service lol.

Isn't it marvellous, isn't it wonderful?

gawd, that's so true. Why do I feel pleasure knowing this? I suppose I must be pretty small-minded.

I don't wish illness on anyone, but poor Mo robots are walking right in to a public health risk with their eyes wide shut.

One time at Army training in 1999 in Bluffdale everyone got crabs - thats right, pubic lice. That was the best mass casualty medical care ever witnessed in the state of UT. 500 25 year olds all scrubbing their cock n balls together in communal showers together. Trotter lies and exaggerates. Goddamn lying church.

There has been a norovirus epidemic here in the North of England this past few weeks. Seems like it's now gone pandemic. Quick! Stock up of food storage, the end of days has begun!

Hummm, norovirus,forced janitorial services. How many wards will have to call off all meetings to eradicate this illness.

One of my siblings entire family (8 out of 10) has this virus this week. I wonder if any were involved in cleaning the church. I'll have to ask them.

I'm pretty sure none of them have been to the MTC lately.

Signs of the true believers in Mark of the NT: "and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ..."

Maybe the church should send the sick home for not being true believers.

in that building so many sick bodies around, I wonder were they put them all. I have never been in the MTC so I don't know how many occupants per bedroom, It has to smell bad. Is there healthy people taking care of them. Thoses health care workers will certainly get this virus and give it to their families a never ending chain...

The church needs to spend the money and put the sick in a hospital to control the spread of it.