Texas State: Pac-12 football team suffers growing mumps outbreak, dozens sick.
Texas StateNearly three dozen players appear on the Aztecs' first availability report, with 17 listed doubtful or out for Saturday's first-ever meeting with Texas State. The school didn't name the team, but the San Diego Union-Tribune reported it is football .
MORE: College football Week 5 best bets: 7 spread picks after major line movement San Diego State first confirmed three cases and two probable cases on Sept. 18.
All five students were tied to one team, and the school said at the time that they were no longer contagious. The count has nearly tripled since then.
Ghosh, medical director of San Diego State Student Health Services, explained the jump in an email to students. "Because mumps symptoms can develop 12 to 25 days after exposure, these new cases reflect spread within the team and potential exposure to additional close contacts," Ghosh wrote .
KEY POINTS
- Pac-12 football team suffers growing mumps outbreak, dozens sick.
- San Diego State football is fighting a mumps outbreak that has grown to 14 confirmed cases, and the Aztecs now enter their first Pac-12 game against Texas State on Saturday with a crowded injury report , ESPN reports.
- A university bulletin sent to students Wednesday said San Diego County Public Health Services confirmed the 14 cases and that the outbreak stayed inside one athletic team.
- The outbreak now includes 14 confirmed cases and one probable case, and only one linked case has come from outside the team.