Fans must wear masks at Brazilian soccer game

[jeanne]

Fans must wear masks at Brazilian soccer game
Associated Press
Updated: August 5, 2009, 1:27 PM EDT
SAO PAULO (AP) -

Fans planning to attend a Brazilian league match will have to wear face masks because of swine flu fears.

A state judge has ordered fans at the Santos vs. Curitiba soccer match to wear masks to avoid closing the event to the public.

The match Wednesday will take place in the city of Cascavel in southern Brazil, the region where most swine flu cases have been reported in Latin America's largest nation.

Prosecutors wanted to postpone the match, but the judge ruled it was enough to have the fans wear masks. Nearly 20,000 tickets were put on sale.

The city can be fined $150,000 if the judge's order is not obeyed.

It's believed to be the first time a soccer match has been affected by swine flu fears in Brazil.

 

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Re: Fans must wear masks at Brazilian soccer game

do cities with weak soccerteams go better in a pandemic ?
Do soccerfans have more flu than average people ?

some cities/hospitals/emergency rooms/doctors/fanclubs/schools/...
please make a questionnaire asking people with ILI for profession,
contacts, where they may have got it,symptoms,duration,
medication,....

put all the records suitably anonymized in an online database

attach a discussion forum, improve the questionnaire


suitable for other diseases too

why doesn't it exist ? make www.flutrackers.com/research/questionnaire
where people with ILI can fill in the questionnaire so to help us figure out
how it spreads, what slows it down, how immunity developes,...