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MMWR reports that ten outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness among school children at nine different schools were reported during February 2003–May 2004 to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH). These outbreaks occurred among children who ate lunch provided by the schools and were characterized by short incubation periods and short durations of illness.
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Clare Jellick of the Journal Star News reports that officials still are searching for what caused the after-lunch illnesses of 82 students at five District 150 schools this week.
No similar outbreaks occurred Thursday, but officials from the Peoria City/County Health Department were at the schools collecting food samples, running tests in kitchens and interviewing staff and students. They also conducted investigations at the four high schools, where lunches are prepared and distributed to the primary and middle schools.
Students at three schools complained of illness Wednesday, and students at two schools complained of illness Monday.Continue Reading Illness still a mystery: Total stands at 82 as health officials test food samples

Students in two Park Forest schools became sick twice in two weeks this month after eating or drinking lunchroom fare.
So far, there is no known cause for the apparent food contamination that led to stomach aches and nausea and some students being briefly hospitalized. Cook County health officials are testing food items that were served to students at Forest Trail Middle School and 21st Century Preparatory Center, both in Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163.Continue Reading When students get sick

Kati Phillips of The Daily Southtown Star reports that the Cook County Department of Public Health plans to test 14 food items, including chicken tenders, peas and fruit cups that were served Monday at Forest Trail Middle School and 21st Century Preparatory Center. Fruit juice served Oct. 5 that may have triggered illness in 17 middle school students also will be tested.
Health officials expect the tests to rule out pathogens typically associated with food poisoning.
Ceres Food Group, the Chicago-based food management company, also is ordering laboratory tests, and results should be available in a few days, said Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163 Supt. Joyce Carmine.
But the school board is taking no chances of a third food poisoning and unanimously voted Monday night to suspend service with Ceres until the health department investigation is complete.Continue Reading Health officials speculate kids ate food tainted by chemicals

A new food vendor supplied pizza, juice boxes and fruit to a suburban Chicago school district Tuesday after children got food poisoning for a second time.
Forty-seven students, mostly at the Forest Trail Middle School in Park Forest, Ill., were sickened after eating lunch Monday in the second incident of suspected food poisoning in Elementary…

The Daily Southtown reports that in the second such incident in two weeks, nearly 50 kids at Forest Trail Middle School and 21st Century Preparatory Center in Park Forest complained of stomachaches and nausea Monday after eating lunches that included pineapple and applesauce cups that some students said smelled and tasted funny.
Earlier in the month, Forest Trail sent 17 students to the hospital with the same symptoms. Fruit juice boxes were suspected then of causing the illnesses.
An investigation by Ceres Food Group, a food management company that services 350 Chicago area schools, indicated some of the juice boxes served Oct. 5 had elevated levels of yeast. Ceres is no longer serving juice from Country Pure Foods, which produced the juice boxes.Continue Reading Kids complain of nausea again

Kati Phillips of The Star reports that yeasty juice may be to blame for an outbreak of stomach cramps and nausea at a Park Forest middle school last week.
Tests ordered by Ceres Food Group indicate mixed fruit juice served to sixth-graders at Forest Trail Middle School in Park Forest/Chicago Heights School District 163 had higher than normal levels of yeast.
The juice tested negative for harmful bacteria such as listeria, E. coli, salmonella, lactic acid and other toxins, said Ceres president John Koubek.
High levels of yeast can result in an upset stomach, but there are no long-term effects from its consumption, he said.Continue Reading Juice that sickened students drank had more yeast than normal

Evelyn Holmes of ABC7 News reports that health investigators will try to determine what made dozens of children ill for the second time in two weeks in Park Forest. Forty-seven children at Forest Trail Junior High were treated at local hospitals for what appears to be food poisoning. All of the students are expected to be OK.
Emergency crews were called to Forest Trail Junior High School, 215 Wilson Street, late Monday morning. The students were taken to six hospitals, including St. Francis Hospital and Health Center in Blue Island and Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in Dyer, Ind.
All of the sick students were able to walk.
Twelve days ago, students at the same school reported feeling nauseous after drinking juice boxes. Since then, school officials said they changed lunch providers.Continue Reading 47 students complain of stomach pains, nausea: Health officials investigate

Seventy-two students of Sekolah Menengah Agama Integrasi Batu Rakit here have been admitted to the Kuala Terengganu Hospital for food poisoning. They were among 213 students taken ill after breaking fast at the school canteen on Monday. Outpatient treatment was given to the rest.
The students, aged between 13 and 17, complained of stomach pain…

Associated Press reports that more than 330 school children in western Ukraine were hospitalized with food poisoning, including four who were in critical condition, an emergency official said Saturday.
The first 299 children, aged between 2 and 6, became ill on Friday, possibly from food prepared at seven kindergartens in the Khmelnitsky region. An additional…