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Published: 11/17/2006 2:47 PM Updated: 11/17/2006 2:51 PM
By: Cindy Hadish - The Gazette<!--End Header --> <!--Last Updated: 20061117T144603-0600-->MANCHESTER , IA - State health officials were investigating the source of an outbreak today at Lambert Elementary in the West Delaware School District.
Four staff members and 166 of about 500 students of the Manchester school called in sick this morning, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.
Symptoms reported included vomiting and diarrhea, which could mean any number of illnesses, health department spokesman Kevin Teale said, including flu or a food-borne illness.
Department personnel will use a questionnaire to try and pinpoint the cause of the illness.
Manchester is about 30 miles north of Cedar Rapids.
Health officials determined norovirus, a highly contagious virus, caused an outbreak that sickened more than half the students at Longfellow Elementary in Iowa City in March.
http://gazetteonline.com/2006/11/17/Home/News/manchesteroutbreak.prt
By: Cindy Hadish - The Gazette<!--End Header --> <!--Last Updated: 20061117T144603-0600-->MANCHESTER , IA - State health officials were investigating the source of an outbreak today at Lambert Elementary in the West Delaware School District.
Four staff members and 166 of about 500 students of the Manchester school called in sick this morning, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.
Symptoms reported included vomiting and diarrhea, which could mean any number of illnesses, health department spokesman Kevin Teale said, including flu or a food-borne illness.
Department personnel will use a questionnaire to try and pinpoint the cause of the illness.
Manchester is about 30 miles north of Cedar Rapids.
Health officials determined norovirus, a highly contagious virus, caused an outbreak that sickened more than half the students at Longfellow Elementary in Iowa City in March.
http://gazetteonline.com/2006/11/17/Home/News/manchesteroutbreak.prt