Update May 24: The number of individuals reported ill from norovirus in Yolo County continues to rise. In a issued today, the county reported that 3,374 have been affected since May 1. Dr. Ron Chapman, the county’s public health officer, said a total of 74 cases have been reported at ÍêÃÀÌåÓý. Two elementary schools in Woodland will close for one day on Friday to extend this Memorial Day long weekend in an effort to break the transmission of the illness.
Update May 12: The Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency reported in a that the number of people sickened by the outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness in the county is increasing "at a very alarming rate." It also confirmed the illness as the highly contagious norovirus. A total of thirty-two cases at ÍêÃÀÌåÓý are among 952 reported at 32 county schools since April 27. Mollie Teng, infection control chair and a primary care physician at Student Health and Counseling Services on campus, said that after the two confirmed cases at UC Dav