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Vegas Visitors Report Illnesses

HAWAII -- As reported by the Honolulu Advertiser: ``Nevada health officials are still searching for clues to a virus that has sickened more than 100 guests — most of them visitors from Hawai'i — of the California Hotel and Casino since Dec. 3.

``Clark County Health District officials said a Norwalk virus — which has symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea like a stomach flu — infected guests of the downtown Las Vegas hotel during the past three months. But environmental health supervisor Daniel Maxson said no cause has been pinpointed at the hotel or the Omni Air charter that took many of the guests to Nevada.

```There's an association with that hotel,' Maxson said. "Precisely how it is being transmitted, we don't know." Maxson said health officials ruled out the hotel's restaurants, which all received the highest grade A rating in the latest inspections.

``…Rob Stillwell, spokesman for hotelier Boyd Gaming Corp., said the hotel is cleaning more frequently and asking guests and employees to wash their hands more frequently. Even though health officials have found no cause of the disease on their property.

``…Clark County health officials encourage anyone who has suffered stomach flu-like symptoms during or after a visit to Las Vegas to call its epidemiology section at (702) 383-1378…"

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