Loveland School Reopens After 52 Sickened
LOVELAND, Colo. (CBS4/AP) - Classes have resumed at a school in Loveland a day after over 50 people reported feeling sick there.
Forty-seven children and five adults from Winona Elementary School went to hospitals to be checked out Tuesday. Several reported feeling nauseous and dizzy.
"They told us to go outside and when people got out they started getting sick and the started to go to the hospital," a student told CBS4.
Authorities still don't know what made people sick. Before the school reopened, the school district said firefighters as well as health officials and representatives of a private environmental testing company walked through the building and tested the air in the school.
"All we've heard is from the doctors; that they did not find any carbon monoxide, they did not find any kind of a gas leak at all," parent Sara Gray said. "They don't know what it was."
Twenty years ago 130 people at the school were treated for dizziness and runny eyes after smelling an unusual odor. In the spring of 1992, officials determined the smell was most likely caused by mold in the duct work. The entire system was replaced.
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