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Health officials on state and county levels alike assumed that the mystery gastro-intestinal illness that closed every school in Mesa County School District 51 was norovirus because of the typically tell-tale signs of vomiting and diarrhea.
But on Monday, the first test for the disease came back negative.
- 23 spontanously ill and go to hospital
- HazMat team and firefighters called in
- same symptoms as other events
- suspected to be carbon monoxide poisoning
- air tests all come back negative
originally posted by: WitcheeWuman
a reply to: JAGStorm
I know many people that have had virus like flu, bronchitus and pneumonia since December and it not gone yet.
They all say they think it is not normal illness and is something else.
For confirmed 2019-nCoV infections, reported illnesses have ranged from people with little to no symptoms to people being severely ill and dying. Symptoms can include:
Fever
Cough
Shortness of breath
originally posted by: LordAhriman
No. That was a stomach virus. Coronavirus is respiratory.
originally posted by: WitcheeWuman
a reply to: JAGStorm
Then you not have the same thing as they have this bad infection for 5, 6 or 7 weeks now. Coughing all the time for days and get better a bit then get worse.
All get it around Christmas wherever they live in the world.
originally posted by: misskat1
My 40 yr old son lives in Eureka California and he just got over a flu that left him in bed for 2 weeks. he said his lungs were on fire, he had a fever and cough and he was so sick he could barely move. And he never gets sick. So I kinda think this virus is already on the loose.
Im making a big batch of chicken soup and freezing it just in case.
originally posted by: rickymouse
This coronovirus was only recognized lately, it has probably been around for many months. They probably labeled it as something else before that. It takes a while to learn of new strains and get the info verified, we do not test for specific viruses most time, we dump them into a class. Same with the Chinese, they were not immediately testing illnesses that were happening, they assumed it was some virus and used general virus treatments.
When they noticed a rise in cases, the Chinese started doing testing and identified what it was. There could have been unconfirmed cases of this virus before, some even leading to death, but they are not attributed to the numbers of deaths, the people are buried or cremated already.
There could have been some exposure from people from China who came to colorado to check things out or some people who went to China and got exposed on their vacation. That is feasible.