1,000 Students Sick With ‘Flu-Like’ or ‘Gastrointestinal’ Symptoms at Virginia High School

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A high school in Virginia has canceled all activities this weekend after about 1,000 called in absent in the week, citing flu-like illness and stomach pains, according to reports.

Stafford County Public Schools is located just outside Fredericksburg, Virginia. Its chief communications officer Sandra Osborn said in a statement via CNN that about 1,000 of the high school’s 2,100 students are “absent with flu-like/gastrointestinal symptoms.”