What "government"?
This story sounds like the work of ACORN to spread fear.
It is not bacterial, but a virus and it is air-born. So you can wash your hands all you want and it wont avoid the virus.
The kid got thrown-up on.
I know enough about the writer to say pretty confidently that he’s not from ACORN.
I’m in western Pa, and I haven’t met anybody who had it.
Yesterday, however, I got a call from a lady in Birmingham, Alabama, doing family research, and she said it was really bad in her neck of the woods. She said a college sorority was closed down temporarily and 36 girls sick. A couple of schools closed. (They must start early down there - our kids aren’t in school yet!) Two deaths in the county - a 54 year old and a 21 year old. They had a local documentary on how to best protect yourself.
I was thinking the same as you, but when I hear reports like that....