Mystery 'plague' hits over 700 students and staff with violent illness at Texas high school
Health department working to determine source of fast-spreading stomach virus at Richardson High School in North Texas
Last Monday over 200 were off sick
By Friday it had escalated to 675 students and 22 staff
The school has brought in special cleaners to sanitize the premises
They say the virus is not food-related and that general hygiene, like hand washing, is the best deterrent
By Daily Mail Reporter
A mystery virus being referred to as 'the plague' continues to sweep through a Texas high school, having already infected over 700 students and staff members and causing them to become violently ill.
The health department is trying to find the source of the stomach illness that first hit Richardson High School in North Texas last week, according to NBC, while cleaners have been brought in to scrub every possible surface on the premises to prevent the bug from spreading.
'It is scary, it really is,' father Demetrius Price, whose son was sent home sick, told NBC 5.
'For that many kids to get sick at one time is scary.'
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