An outbreak of the highly contagious norovirus at a Louisiana casino last week has sickened at least 200 people, according to state health officials who are investigating the matter.
Louisiana’s Department of Health confirmed in a statement Thursday that the illnesses reported at L’Auberge Casino in Lake Charles were caused by the norovirus, a gastrointestinal illness that can cause vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain.
Health officials said an outbreak of the norovirus at L’Auberge Casino in Louisiana has infected at least 200 people.
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The agency’s regional medical director Dr. Lacey Cavanaugh said several hundred people attended the casino’s most recent events. She said the agency has received at least 200 surveys from people self-reporting virus symptoms.
Cavanaugh said people would be contagious whenever they showed symptoms — and sometimes up to three weeks after the symptoms are gone.
“How it started at this point d