Norovirus Sickens Wisconsin Wedding Guests
Over 100 Wisconsin wedding guests may have become ill with norovirus, a pathogen that is often foodborne. In a story in the Leader Telegram, Randy Wilson of the Barron County Health Department was cited as saying that days after 296 people attended a wedding reception November 4, 2006, in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, several guests experienced diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and nausea. One guest from Minnesota has been hospitalized.
This is one in a series of Rice County, Wisconsin, norovirus outbreaks. The first case of norovirus in Rice Lake was linked to a potluck dinner October 19, 2006. 18 people were sickened. Another recent norovirus outbreak in Rice Lake involved Sacred Heart Hospital. 32 patients and staff in one area of the hospital contracted norovirus.
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Source: Chris Vetter, Illnesses traced to wedding reception, Leader Telegram, November 14, 2006.