CONNECTICUT: Norovirus sickened 30 who were at restaurant banquet - (The Courant)
April 4, 2008 – 10:05 pmMANCHESTER–Health officials say it was a norovirus, the type of illness known to race through cruise ships, that sickened about 30 people who attended a banquet hosted by a University of Connecticut sorority at The Adams Mill Restaurant on Saturday.
UConn sent out a campuswide e-mail Thursday detailing the outbreak and urging precautions to prevent the virus from spreading on campus.
Manchester Health Department Director Maryann Cherniak Lexius was cited as saying norovirus can be food-borne, can spread from person to person or can be contracted from the contaminated surfaces of doorknobs and handles.
At the health department’s suggestion, The Adams Mill, a restaurant and banquet center on Adams Street, voluntarily closed for the day Wednesday for a top-to-bottom cleaning, she said.
As of Thursday, about 30 students had been treated at UConn’s infirmary after falling ill following the banquet Saturday night for about 150 people hosted by the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Anthony Scarpace, […]
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