http://capitalnews9.com/content/top_storie...ck/Default.aspx

I wonder if it has something to do with massive amounts of chemicals and the fact that its indoors.

You may remember something very similar happened at Great Wolf Lodge in Mason shortly after it opened....

And now it is up to at least 90 sick:

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/03/1...a1569254722.txt

Now up to 143 ill:

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp...sdate=3/21/2008

Also, was this a viral flu that hit diabetic children particularly hard?:

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp...sdate=3/21/2008

It said in the 2nd article you posted that it could be fatal to diabetic children as it may dehydrate them quicker.

As they say, "There must be something in the water."

This is probably the same thing that GWL went through, and being someone who worked as a lifeguard there... I know how it feels.

So Nemo, what exactly happened at GWL? I must have missed that.

Many people (both people staying at the lodge and water park employees) became sick with symptoms such as rashes, nausea, asthma, and vomiting. This seems to happen at indoor water parks. I came down with cold like symptoms every week and sometime would wake up in the night with my eyes burning. I believe the lodge has fixed this problem.

Great Escape Illness could be Norovirus:

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S386781.shtml?cat=300

Outbreak Angers Some Hotel Guests:

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S386815.shtml?cat=10114

Great Escape Illnesses Rise to 200:

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/03/2...0b851143779.txt

DOH Investigating Cause:

http://www.northcountrygazette.org/news/20...scape_sickness/

Officials Wait On Lab Results, Business Still Open, Fewer Customers:

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/03/2...d6110275476.txt

Now up to 352 Sick:

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S389081.shtml?cat=300

Sickened families suing Great Escape:

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/03/2...al/13462030.txt

^ I'm not saying that the park should not be held responsible for this particular incident, but, what a weasel like comment from the lawyer referring to the incidents involving cruiseships.

Talk about planting a seed.

Many people (both people staying at the lodge and water park employees) became sick with symptoms such as rashes, nausea, asthma, and vomiting. This seems to happen at indoor water parks. I came down with cold like symptoms every week and sometime would wake up in the night with my eyes burning. I believe the lodge has fixed this problem.

Do you happen to know what did GWL do to fix the problem?

Up to 388 Sickened and Counting:

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/new...0,6820521.story

New Cases of Great Escape Virus Declining:

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/03/2...e1811279240.txt

Second Lawsuit filed over Great Escape Illnesses:

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/03/3...08374061751.txt

Jeeze, It's the Great Wolf Lodge all over again!

Third suit filed:

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp...wsdate=4/2/2008

And now, a class action lawsuit:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/c...ix-flagging-11/

See also:

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/04/0...1b071908373.txt

An outbreak's lessons:

http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/04/1...al/13505568.txt

(Don't miss the photo gallery, showing some of the changes:

http://www.poststar.com/shared-content/gal...mp;mediaid=8493

Class Action Lawsuit filed:

http://capitalnews9.com/content/top_storie...rk/Default.aspx

Judge: Lawsuit against Six Flags' Great Escape can proceed:

A lawsuit filed against the Great Escape Lodge and Indoor Water Park in Queensbury, N.Y., after hundreds of people became ill last year can proceed as a class action, a judge has ruled, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.

A state Supreme Court judge in Warren County issued the ruling June 8, the attorneys said.

Potential damages could exceed $6 million, according to attorneys at DeGraff, Foy & Kunz, LLP, and Dreyer Boyajian, LLP, in Albany.

The lawsuit contends nearly 600 people contracted norovirus at the park in March 2008 due to unsanitary conditions in the indoor water park's restaurants and other facilities....

I should mention that in New York State, the Supreme Court is a local trial court, not the state's appellate court...

http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/...08/daily41.html

Boy, Six Flags isn't doing so well...

Indeed...in other news, the sun will set in the west today....

Sigh.