Posted: February 9th, 2008 - 11:58pm by Doug Powell

Did Garp worry about norovirus while wrestling?

Dr. Chill Yee, a sports medicine fellow with the Montana Family Medicine Residency in Billings, worries about norovirus and wrestling.

"You can imagine with such a high-contact sport how easily things are spread. …  This is unique because we have such high contact. Another event here, say rodeo or arena football, you're not going to have that contact even though it's a dense crowd."

The Billings Gazette reports that Yee was among medical professionals charged with screening more than 700 athletes in the state wrestling tournament at MetraPark Arena this weekend for communicable diseases.

Don Gleason, the tournament's medical director, said mats are washed between matches with a disinfectant, adding,

"We have people assigned to do that. The clean mats will keep the chance of spreading (anything) to a minimum."

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