{"id":412,"date":"2015-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/disneyland-deemed-safe-after-measles-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:34:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:34:27","slug":"disneyland-deemed-safe-after-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/disneyland-deemed-safe-after-measles-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland deemed safe after measles outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The place that is dubbed \u201cthe happiest place on earth\u201d may have been anything but joyful for a number of people who contracted measles while at Disneyland and its adjacent park, Disney\u2019s California Adventure. According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2015\/01\/07\/measles-outbreak-disneyland\/21402755\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today.com<\/a> report, health officials linked the outbreak to patrons who attended the park between December 15 and December 20.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, the measles virus can be highly contagious. Health officials indicate that the virus can hang in the air \u201clike a ghost\u201d for up to two hours, even though it does not speak on surfaces. As such, it is not suspected that the park could be dangerous for patrons. Additionally, if a person has been vaccinated (as many children in the United States have been), the measles virus is not likely to pose a threat. Since the infected patrons visited the park nearly a month ago, it has been deemed safe for the public.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the outbreak does raise questions about a theme park\u2019s liability for spreading contagious diseases. On a threshold level, a park (or any other public venue, for that matter) has a responsibility to take reasonable steps to keep public areas free of contaminants that can spread disease. Essentially, there is a duty to sanitize areas where diseases can fester and become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/premises-liability.html\">dangerous <\/a>to the public.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/disneyland-deemed-safe-after-measles-outbreak\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Disneyland deemed safe after measles outbreak\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The place that is dubbed \u201cthe happiest place on earth\u201d may have been anything but joyful for a number of people who contracted measles while at Disneyland and its adjacent park, Disney\u2019s California Adventure. According to a recent USA Today.com report, health officials linked the outbreak to patrons who attended the park between December 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-premises-liability","tag-premises-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Disneyland deemed safe after measles outbreak &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 14, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Disneyland deemed safe after measles outbreak - Premises Liability - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/disneyland-deemed-safe-after-measles-outbreak\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Disneyland deemed safe after measles outbreak &#8212; 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