Disney World Visitors Contract Mystery Illness

American Voices • Opinion • ISSUE 48•30 • Jul 27, 2012

Since June, several dozen visitors to Walt Disney World’s Wild Africa Trek in Florida have been sickened by an unknown illness that causes flu-like symptoms, including nausea, fatigue, and diarrhea. What do you think?

“Flu-like? If I’m paying for a true African experience I better be getting some malaria-like or sickle-cell-type symptoms.”
Scott Dube –
Unemployed
“That’s why I never let my kids stray beyond the sanitary confines of Epcot’s Norway Pavilion.”
Gordon Julow –
Dehydrating-Press Operator
“Uh-oh. They didn’t accidentally touch Goofy, did they?”
Ralph Borja –
Harbor Master

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