Health official: Virus likely caused illnesses at Lincoln's Challenge

RANTOUL – Students at Lincoln's Challenge Academy were likely sickened this weekend by a virus, not by food poisoning, said Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Administrator Julie Pryde.

"We're working under the hypothesis that this is a viral infection – gastroenteritis, something like the Norwalk virus," Pryde said.

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