About 170 visitors and employees to Yosemite Valley have fallen ill in recent weeks, prompting an investigation into the cause of a norovirus outbreak.
Eric Reynolds was sleeping after a day supervising middle schoolers in Yosemite Valley when he was startled awake by the sound of someone pounding on his cabin door.At first, he assumed it was food poisoning from chicken nuggets. But by the next morning, the young man was running a fever. Then nine additional students fell sick with stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea, fever — the characteristic signs of a norovirus infection.
Many of the reports involved vacationers in Curry Village, a quaint collection of tents and cabins in Yosemite Valley. But over the past week, there has been a significant decline in the number of new cases, officials said.Looking back, Reynolds said it’s difficult to determine the precise moment when the Bay Area students he chaperoned caught the gastrointestinal bug during a five-day trip to the park that began Jan. 5.
Reynolds’ daughter, 12-year-old Sophie, said the trip home was awful. “Everyone was feeling sick,” she said.“My 11-year-old’s temperature was 105, my 13-year-old’s 103,” said Waller, 50, of San Francisco. “And their stomach issues were extreme.”Her concerns continued after her children returned to school Thursday.
Yosemite, which was established in 1864, is no stranger to high-profile outbreaks of infectious disease.
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