The Person County Health Department says 125 students were sent home from school Wednesday due to illness.
Symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, and a low grade fever. Laboratory testing is being conducted to determine the cause.
The director of the Person County Health Department is calling it a gastrointestinal illness. The Department of Health and Human Services has not confirmed it is norovirus.
Superintendent of Person County Schools, Danny Holloman, sent an automated phone message to parents Wednesday afternoon saying, “It has come to my attention that we seem to be having some sickness, virus type symptoms, surfacing in our schools today.”
Holloman went on to say that after talking with school nurses and administrators 84 students and six teachers at Person High School went home sick.
An investigation by the Ventura County Environmental Health Division (EHD) revealed that during the week of August 18, 2015, about 80 restaurant customers and 18 restaurant employees reported symptoms characteristic of a gastrointestinal illness.
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