Dozens of tri-delts who became sick after a meal at their University of Michigan sorority house were stricken with norovirus.
The Detroit Free Press reports lab results released Wed. by the Washtenaw County Public Health Department confirmed norovirus. Spokeswoman Susan .jpg)
Cerniglia, said the outbreak was “most likely,” the result of food poisoning, but the virus also may have been transmitted through personal contact or shared surfaces at the Delta Delta Delta house near the university.
Being Canadian, I never got the whole sorority-fraternity thing except what I saw in Animal House, which I presumed was an accurate representation of American college life.
Amy’s always going on about the University of Michigan because she got her PhD from there but prefers the sunshine of Kansas to the 
climatic drudgery of Michigan.
Things were shaking at the U-M Delta Delta Delta house Saturday night as firefighters were called to help 37 women suffering from nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Maybe it was a sorority prank.
Washtenaw County Environmental Health supervisor Kristen Schweighoefer told the Detroit Free Press the sorority shared meals, so the students could have been exposed that way, adding,
“We don’t know which meal or what food item at this point.”
It’s too early to say for sure that norovirus was the cause without laboratory testing, she said.
As Kansas State (24) prepares to host University of Kansas Saturday morning in college football action, here’s hoping the locals are better hosts than the women at KU’s Pi Beta Phi sorority.
Apparently, the fathers of the gals will soon be receiving “I survived Pi Phi Dad’s Day 2007” T-shirts.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports that some of the dads and many of the women of Pi Beta Phi came down with an unknown illness during the Sept, 22 event at KU.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is investigating and, as yet, hasn’t found a source of the illness. The probe has included Vermont Street Barbecue, Abe & Jake’s Landing and the sorority’s kitchen, but it could expand further.
KDHE spokesman Joe Blubaugh said the number of people who were potentially exposed — up to 240 — complicates the investigation.
Meg Stewart, Pi Beta Phi president, said the sorority was grateful the illness wasn’t worse. She said a few members were sent to a hospital.