MI: Illness closes Mt. Pleasant Public Schools Thursday and Friday - Norovirus confirmed

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Illness closes Mt. Pleasant Public Schools Thursday and Friday
By Lisa Satayut for the Midland Daily News Midland Daily News |
Posted: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:57 pm | Updated: 1:26 pm, Wed Jan 11, 2012.

Hundreds of students in Isabella County are home sick today with what could be the flu or a stomach virus. In an effort to stop the spreading of the illness the Mt. Pleasant School District will be closed Thursday and Friday...

 

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Re: MI: Illness closes Mt. Pleasant Public Schools Thursday and Friday

Mt. Pleasant schools close due to stomach virus

Published: Thursday, January 12, 2012

By RYAN BERLIN
Sun Staff Writer

Mt. Pleasant School District will be closed Thursday and Friday due to a virus that has spread around to more than 200 students.

Saginaw Chippewa Academy and the Renaissance Public School Academy also will be closed

?We believe it is Norovirus but that hasn?t been confirmed yet,? Superintendent Mike Pung said.

?It started (Wednesday) when we had about 40 students who were out sick and today there are 206 absences.?

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Medical director says Ganiard outbreak followed typical norovirus pattern

Published: Saturday, January 14, 2012
By RYAN BERLIN
Sun Staff Writer

Earlier this week Mt. Pleasant School district canceled all of its classes because of a viral outbreak.

Isabella County Central Michigan District Health Department medical director Dr. Robert Graham believes the outbreak is norovirus and nothing else.

?We are not suspecting (food poisoning) at all. It doesn?t follow the food poisoning pattern,? Graham said. ?(Ganiard Elementary) has a pristine record when it comes to food service. That doesn?t mean there couldn?t be a slipup, but it doesn?t act like a foodborne illness to me.

?The way it was spread it would be hit or miss and the attack rate wouldn?t be so high,? Graham said. ?If just the kids who ate the macaroni got sick then that would alert us to a possible foodborne illness, but we didn?t see that kind of pattern.?

Samples have not yet confirmed what the virus is because they are still being collected. Once stool samples are collected they will be sent to a lab in Lansing and tested.

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Re: MI: Illness closes Mt. Pleasant Public Schools Thursday and Friday - Norovirus confirmed

Norovirus confirmed as source of Ganiard stomach flu outbreak

Published: Tuesday, January 24, 2012

By MARK RANZENBERGER
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TheMorningSun.com

The bug that sickened more than 200 Mt. Pleasant Public Schools students has been positively identified as a strain of norovirus.

In a statement posted to the Mt. Pleasant schools? website, authorities said tests run for the Central Michigan District Health Department identified the virus as the G-2 strain of norovirus, one of the most common strains.

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