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LA Times, April 12: Reserve guard Steve Blake has chicken pox... The Lakers can only hope nobody else gets it. Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum and Ron Artest have never had the illness, making them more susceptible...

Please don't! Noooooooooooo...!!!

I wouldn't worry too much about it. The Lakers' brass will handle it.

Jase wrote:I wouldn't worry too much about it. The Lakers' brass will handle it.

How? How will they handle chicken pox?!? If Blake was around the whole team while he had early symptoms, he may have already infected Bynum, Artest, and Bryant.

Jase wrote:I wouldn't worry too much about it. The Lakers' brass will handle it.

Yeah, I can see the Lakers brass starting lineup:
Fisher
Brian Shaw
Phil Jackson
Pau Gasol
Mitch Kupchak

Threepeat! Threepeat! Threepeat!
(forgive me, Jase - not making fun of your post, just trying to lighten the mood! Yes, there are shots...)

ctorres wrote:

Jase wrote:I wouldn't worry too much about it. The Lakers' brass will handle it.

How? How will they handle chicken pox?!? If Blake was around the whole team while he had early symptoms, he may have already infected Bynum, Artest, and Bryant.

Multi-million dollar organization, trained medical staff, shots.....

Steve Blake isn't the first NBA player to get the pox.

That, or I'm just not getting all worked up over it because it isn't going to make the negative possibility any brighter.

vmor wrote:

Jase wrote:I wouldn't worry too much about it. The Lakers' brass will handle it.

Yeah, I can see the Lakers brass starting linup:
Fisher
Brian Shaw
Phil Jackson
Pau Gasol
Mitch Kupchak

Threepeat! Threepeat! Threepeat!
(forgive me, Jase - not making fun of your post, just trying to lighten the mood! Yes, there are shots...)

It's all good, man. Thanks for the clarification. And your lineup would beat Cleveland, still, which has to count for something.

Jase wrote:

ctorres wrote:

Jase wrote:I wouldn't worry too much about it. The Lakers' brass will handle it.

How? How will they handle chicken pox?!? If Blake was around the whole team while he had early symptoms, he may have already infected Bynum, Artest, and Bryant.

Multi-million dollar organization, trained medical staff, shots.....

Steve Blake isn't the first NBA player to get the pox.

That, or I'm just not getting all worked up over it because it isn't going to make the negative possibility any brighter.

hehehe there's nothing lakers medical staff can do right now. If they're infected it's a matter of "public healthy"(don't know how to say this in english). They wont die or anything like that but they wont be allowed to frequent public places with the disease.

There's nothing they can do right now do except hide the symptoms somehow and let our players play infected and consequently infect the whole NBA

That's it.

So Let's hope they aren't infected.

Btw I blame Kobe's, Bynum's and Artest's parents for not putting them in contact with other kids with the chicken pox to make them immune at an adult age.

Terrible/ignorant parents. Yes, I'm serious.

correct me if wrong. I think if you had the vaccine when you're a child, the chances of you getting a chicken pox is very low.

chefy wrote:correct me if wrong. I think if you had the vaccine when you're a child, the chances of you getting a chicken pox is very low.

You're right but the vaccine only started being commonly used in western countries late in the 80's early in the 90's (japanese invented it in the 70's if I'm not mistaken)

So yeh the only guy that could have got the vaccine when he was a kid was bynum so I blame his parents even more.

honestly, knowing they never had the pox before and that it is very dangerous to contract it as an adult....they should have had the vaccine by now, you don't have to be a kid to get the shot.

Also I hate to be Debbie Downer here but chances are at least one other person on our team is already infected, which would also mean players from the Spurs and now Kings are also at risk.

The head scratcher is that Blake's wife says their kids already had the vaccine and did not infect him...so where did he get it

Kobe is immune to all that ****. He's only prone to food poisoning

i dont think it all that funny. It could be life threating to steve. Would you want chicken pox at the age 30? i think not.

http://chickenpox.emedtv.com/chickenpox ... ox-p2.html

70 to 90 percent of adults who don't remember having chickenpox actually have protection in their blood

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/8/t080900.asp

Without the chickenpox vaccine, around 2 percent of adults older than thirty years of age in the United States are susceptible to chickenpox.

I wouldn't worry too much.

Dalakerbox wrote:honestly, knowing they never had the pox before and that it is very dangerous to contract it as an adult....they should have had the vaccine by now, you don't have to be a kid to get the shot.

Also I hate to be Debbie Downer here but chances are at least one other person on our team is already infected, which would also mean players from the Spurs and now Kings are also at risk.

The head scratcher is that Blake's wife says their kids already had the vaccine and did not infect him...so where did he get it

By touching anything that has been infected with chieck pox. Anything. Anywhere.

a good explanation of chicken pox in adults from a friendly Celtics forum internist:
"I probably should say something about this as an internist (as well as an endocrinologist) because it could have implications for Kobe and Artest (who apparently did not develop natural immunity to chicken pox as children because they apparently never had chicken pox as children, and, in addition, who apparently never received the chicken pox (varicella) virus vaccination.

Assuming these guys were exposed to an infectious Steve Blake, I guarrantee you that the Laker medical staff (after consultation with an infectious disease doc in LA) have already vaccinated Kobe and Artest, and, in addition, are treating them with prophylactic acyclovir (an anti-viral medication) - in an attempt to abort an active case of chicken pox in these gentlemen.

In addition, the non-dermatologic manifestations of chicken pox in adults are more frequent and serious in adults suffering a virgin, "first time" episode of chicken pox. These complications include very serious varicella pneumonia, meningoencephalitis, and septic arthritis among other things. I do not wish this on anybody.

The incubation period is 1-2 weeks, so time will tell if Kobe and Artest actually develop chicken pox at all, and, if they do, how ill they will become."

Kobe Bryant said his father told the Lakers he believes Bryant was vaccinated against chickenpox as a youth, which helped allay some fears that the Lakers’ star might have contracted the virus from teammate Steve Blake, who is out indefinitely with it.

Bryant also joked about putting on makeup to hide it if he did have chickenpox so he could continue to play.

“If I had it, I wouldn’t tell y’all (expletive),” Bryant said to reporters.

Bryant, Andrew Bynum and Ron Artest told the Lakers they had not previously had chickenpox. Bryant said having been vaccinated should help his situation. Blake is questionable for the first round of the playoffs against New Orleans, with that series starting at 12:30 p.m. Pacific on Sunday.

http://lakers.ocregister.com/2011/04/14 ... pox/52711/

No worries