(In the wee hours- yes, that would have been Sunday morning... (I always think of it as very late Saturday night) I heard a very large number of flights going over this area: SW Connecticut near Long Island Sound)
Mystery illness strikes Caston schools
Associated Press
August 23, 2004
FULTON, Ind. -- State health officials are trying to determine the cause of an illness that spread through Caston schools last week.
At least 80 students were absent Friday, seven from the high school and 73 from the elementary school, said Superintendent Bob Huffman.
Huffman said each of the seven sick high school students has a sibling attending the elementary school in the district of about 800 students about 50 miles northeast of Lafayette.
Students began getting ill Thursday afternoon, some of whom got sick on their bus rides home. The high absentee rate prompted Huffman to contact the Fulton County Health Department, which brought in the state Department of Health.
Health officials checked temperatures and took food samples in the cafeteria, Huffman said. He said that food poisoning has not been ruled out, although officials are leaning toward a virus.
The school served chicken nuggets for lunch on Thursday, and the bags and boxes they came in have been checked, he said.
"Everything we've used, we've kept back in case it needed to be tested further," Huffman said.
Pro - med is still reporting outbreaks of the chicken virus
around the world, I haven't read all of the reports, the
headlines show it is still breaking out.
re; your Ind. kids sick at school after eating chicken nuggets.