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Students sickened by norovirus at Raleigh conference
wral.com ^ | 2/15/2010 | Bruce Mildwurf of Capitol Broadcasting Company

Posted on 02/16/2010 2:43:08 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt

Raleigh, N.C. — Tests show the students sickened while attending a leadership conference in Raleigh over the weekend suffered from norovirus, Wake County officials said Monday.

About 150 of the 1,000 students from across the state who gathered at the downtown Raleigh Sheraton for a YMCA Youth & Government meeting reported nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Five were taken to area hospitals

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: norovirus; raleigh; spreading; stomach; virus
Reports this morning are that this norovirus outbreak is spreading very rapidly in this area (Wake County, NC).
1 posted on 02/16/2010 2:43:10 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

No wonder if these kids were from all over the state, they stayed in a hotel, and some went to the hospital. The whole state should be on it’s way to be affected by now.


2 posted on 02/16/2010 3:39:03 AM PST by Dem Guard
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To: Dem Guard

No wonder if these kids were from all over the state, they stayed in a hotel, and some went to the hospital. The whole state should be on it’s way to be affected by now.

A few more cases and this could be called, by the media, worse then the swine flu. don’t let Obama or the CDC find out about this.


3 posted on 02/16/2010 4:06:04 AM PST by chainsaw
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To: chainsaw

Let’s hope it was really the food at the hotel.


4 posted on 02/16/2010 4:08:44 AM PST by Dem Guard
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To: chainsaw

No doubt. Will we all be rounded up and monitored while we wash our hands???


5 posted on 02/16/2010 5:16:03 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Dem Guard

Yep - ugh - stomach virus is something I have not had in many many years....just ugh.


6 posted on 02/16/2010 5:16:55 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

I live in Charlotte and I caught a virus during a plane flight that put me in a hospital for 5 weeks. It progressed to pneumonia and nearly killed me. I hope I don’t run in to any of these “merchants of death” over here.


7 posted on 02/16/2010 5:50:03 AM PST by Dem Guard
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To: nnn0jeh

ping


8 posted on 02/16/2010 5:53:16 AM PST by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: Dem Guard

oh my goodness!!! wow!!! Glad you lived through that and thanks for that information.,,,


9 posted on 02/17/2010 4:39:43 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If American ever ceases to be a nation under God, she will be a nation gone under.")
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