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A suspected outbreak of norovirus shuttered a Fort Worth middle school on Friday, according to the Tarrant County Public Health Department.
Creekview Middle School, which is located in Fort Worth but is part of the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District, closed Friday to “allow for further disinfecting in alignment with public health guidelines,” the district said in a media release.
The school district has been in contact with Tarrant County Public Health.
“Norovirus activity in the community appears to be high,” health department officials wrote in an advisory to health care providers.
On Wednesday, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD “notified TCPH of many students experiencing acute gastrointestinal illness at Creekview Middle School,” the advisory states. “Current reported symptoms include 108 students with vomiting, 46 with nausea, 7 with diarrhea, 15 with stomachache, and only 1 with fever (categories are not mutually exclusive). This pattern is highly consistent with norovirus, which typically presents with sudden onset vomiting, limited fever, and short-duration illness.”
“With increased community activity other outbreaks may occur in groups settings like schools, shelters, childcare, hospitals and long-term care facilities,” the advisory states.
All other EMS ISD campuses remained open Friday, and Creekview is expected to return to its usual schedule on Monday, March 2.
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