Dozens of children and a few adults got sick at a Florida summer camp, and officials are scrambling to figure out what happened, WTSP-TV (Tampa) is reporting.
On Wednesday, a “mass casualty event,” as state officials are calling it, broke out at the Cloverleaf 4-H camp at Lake Placid, about 100 miles south of Orlando. It’s not clear, from media reports, when the illness broke out, but on that day, some of the children began falling ill, reporting headaches, nausea and vomiting. At least one child passed out.
Highlands County Public Safety Director Marc Bashoor said that it was the child passing out that made camp officials decide to call 911.
“There was nausea, vomiting. Some had headaches and then of course the one that had passed out that prompted the 911 call.”
By Thursday, according to the Broward Sun-Sentinel, 33 adults and three kids had been taken to area hospitals. Fortunately, none of them were seriously ill enough to be hospitalized beyond overnight.
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