From swine flu, to SARS, to scarlet fever, to med school and right through to the amazing opportunity of Measles Disney, Robyn Schneider’s life seems to have been punctuated by contagion – and now she’s written a book about it
Disneyland was practically empty and the five of us weren’t sure if we’d lucked out, or made a mistake. “Do you want to go to Measles Disney?” my friend had asked, half-joking, the week before. “I have free guest passes.” We all lived in Southern California, although I was the only one who had grown up there, heading to Disneyland after school and without occasion. But that visit was unlike any I’d made before.
It was the height of the measles outbreak earlier this year, when over 50 people caught the disease at the theme park, flying home from vacation before anyone knew what had happened. The news reports were calling it the “Disney Outbreak,” which sounded like a horror movie that would top box office charts. But it also sounded like there’d be no line to ride Space Mountain.
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