166 children fall ill with vomiting bug in major outbreak at same English primary school

‘Scores of children and teachers were sent home after a vomiting bug hit a primary school in the northern English city of Sheffield.
A total of 166 kids and three members of staff at Intake Primary School were registered as off sick in recent days as parents fear a major outbreak of winter norovirus.
“We have taken advice from environmental health and public health,” a school spokeswoman said. “People are saying it’s the norovirus but there is no confirmed diagnosis yet.”
A spokeswoman for Taylor Shaw food services, which caters for the school, told RT: “All we can tell you it’s a vomiting bug, not food poisoning.”’
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