Illness Prompts Look at Schools

The ColumbianMay 23, 2006

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As norovirus symptoms decrease at two senior-living centers, county health officials are taking a close look at school absentee rates.

The Clark County Health Department has been monitoring cases of probable norovirus at two senior-living facilities for several days. The same symptoms vomiting, diarrhea and nausea appeared in a local school this week, and now health investigators are checking if absences at other schools are part of the outbreak.

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Illness Prompts Look at Schools

More than 800 absences were reported Wednesday at Hudson's Bay and Fort Vancouver high schools, but health officials don't know if gastrointestinal disease played a role. The numbe...

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