Personal Injury Law

Norovirus Strikes North Carolina Church

By Bill Marler

After a Sunday church service last week, 40 members of a Cary Baptist church caught a stomach virus, including the pastor's family.

About 140 people gathered for Sunday worship at North Cary Baptist Church on Reedy Creek Road and then ate a pot luck lunch together, said Pastor Mark Minervino.

Soon after, people began falling ill and vomiting, he said. At first, they thought it was food poisoning, but the illness passed between family members at different times.

They later discovered a child in the church had been ill two days before the pot luck. The child was not there Sunday, but relatives were, Minervino said.

No one has been hospitalized, Minervino said. The pastor spoke with a Wake County Health Department official, who told him it is probably the norovirus, a stomach bug that swept through Wake County earlier this year.

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Full post as published by Norovirus Blog on June 26, 2010 (boomark / email).