Cleanup crews in California are working to curb the spread of sickness with powerful chemical disinfectants as wildfire evacuee shelters are hit by viral outbreaks, according to an article on the Washington Post website.
The outbreak of vomiting and diarrhea has carried on for days at the Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds in Yuba City.
Reports say that about one evacuee a day has to goes to the hospital. At one point, four people were in isolation in a makeshift infirmary set up behind blue curtains on one side of the exhibit hall.
More than 120 people in shelters and other temporary accommodations have been taken to hospitals in recent days with stomach ailments that resemble the symptoms of norovirus, a highly contagious infection.
The most devastating fire in California history began in the Sierra foothills in the morning hours of Nov. 8. Now temporary accommodations are being overwhelmed by overcrowding and disease.
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