Attention parents: If your child is showing signs of a stomach bug, do not send them to school or day care.
can cause bloody stool and diarrhea, high fever, severe stomach cramping and tenderness, and dehydration.
While outbreaks in schools were significantly larger than those in child care centers, sickness in child care centers lasted longer. Outbreaks in schools lasted 9 days, on average, while child care center outbreaks lasted for an average of 15 days. Around 98% of outbreaks were to blame for at least one visit to the emergency room, the researchers report.
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