Two hundred Ohio university students sick with norovirus symptoms

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Source: Reuters

World | Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:23pm EST

Two hundred Ohio university students sick with norovirus symptoms

CLEVELAND | BY KIM PALMER

At least 200 students at a central Ohio public university have reported symptoms of the highly contagious norovirus, school officials said on Wednesday.

Reports of the outbreak at Miami University started last Tuesday when five students came into a school health center at the Oxford, Ohio, main campus, located about 35 miles (56 km) north of Cincinnati, complaining of stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting, a university spokeswoman said.

Since the initial reports, a number of students have tested positive for norovirus, said the spokeswoman, Carole Johnson.

“We have been very diligent in our cleaning and are using products that combat the virus in our residential and dining halls,” she said. A small number of the students have gone to a local hospital since the outbreak for dehydration symptoms, she said.

Norovirus is the most common cause of food-borne disease outbreaks in the United States. Infections usually occur in places such as hospitals, cruise ships and universities, where people eat and live in close quarters.

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