BARRY, Ill. (WGEM) –
After several people got sick after attending the same event in Barry, Illinois, Oct. 17, Adams County Health Department says it’s helping investigate an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis disease in Pike County, Illinois.
Adams County Health Department Director of Clinical and Environmental Services Shay Drummond says the health department is helping Pike County Health Department investigate the parasitic illness that has infected six people. Pike County Health Department RN, BSN Jan Bleich says the common event was the Pike County Fall Color Drive. The source, she says, may have been apple cider.
Bleich says some of the people were hospitalized.
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