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Keith Ballard may have had the mumps; No. 1 offense (Pens) vs. No. 1 defense (Wild) tonight
Posted by: Michael Russo under Wild pregame skate Updated: November 4, 2014 - 1:12 PM
...Very strange story here, but defenseman Keith Ballard may have had the mumps.
When the Wild talked with the St. Louis Blues a few weeks ago and discovered that the Blues had a number of players test positive for the mumps (originally the Blues thought it was a bacterial issue, but mumps is a virus), the team sent Ballard and Folin to Regions to undergo a mumps test.
After all, Ballard and Christian Folin had similar symptoms to the Blues and swollen jaws.
All of Folin?s tests were apparently negative even though he had the same exact symptoms as Ballard. Folin returned last game after missing five.
Ballard has not yet returned and as it turns out, Ballard had some positive tests for the mumps and some negative tests. So they?re still not exactly positive what Ballard had.
?I?ve asked my mom and she said I had the [mumps] vaccine, so it makes no sense,? Ballard said. ?So that?s the hard part they?re (team docs) are trying to wrap their heads around. How would I have gotten it??
Ballard has started to come around the team again, practiced yesterday and skated today. But he was pretty much quarantined from the rest of the team the past few weeks because the Wild wasn?t sure of everyone?s background in terms of whether they had the mumps vaccine.
?I had lots of flu symptoms ? achy, fever, weak, zero energy,? Ballard said. ?Some days, even if I went out to run an errand, I was wiped out. I?d come home and lay down for three hours. I?ve been going to bed around 6 or 8 p.m., sleep for 12 hours and wake up exhausted.
?It was awful.?
Ballard?s wife and kids haven?t gotten sick...
Keith Ballard may have had the mumps; No. 1 offense (Pens) vs. No. 1 defense (Wild) tonight
Posted by: Michael Russo under Wild pregame skate Updated: November 4, 2014 - 1:12 PM
...Very strange story here, but defenseman Keith Ballard may have had the mumps.
When the Wild talked with the St. Louis Blues a few weeks ago and discovered that the Blues had a number of players test positive for the mumps (originally the Blues thought it was a bacterial issue, but mumps is a virus), the team sent Ballard and Folin to Regions to undergo a mumps test.
After all, Ballard and Christian Folin had similar symptoms to the Blues and swollen jaws.
All of Folin?s tests were apparently negative even though he had the same exact symptoms as Ballard. Folin returned last game after missing five.
Ballard has not yet returned and as it turns out, Ballard had some positive tests for the mumps and some negative tests. So they?re still not exactly positive what Ballard had.
?I?ve asked my mom and she said I had the [mumps] vaccine, so it makes no sense,? Ballard said. ?So that?s the hard part they?re (team docs) are trying to wrap their heads around. How would I have gotten it??
Ballard has started to come around the team again, practiced yesterday and skated today. But he was pretty much quarantined from the rest of the team the past few weeks because the Wild wasn?t sure of everyone?s background in terms of whether they had the mumps vaccine.
?I had lots of flu symptoms ? achy, fever, weak, zero energy,? Ballard said. ?Some days, even if I went out to run an errand, I was wiped out. I?d come home and lay down for three hours. I?ve been going to bed around 6 or 8 p.m., sleep for 12 hours and wake up exhausted.
?It was awful.?
Ballard?s wife and kids haven?t gotten sick...