Rash Outbreak in NE Ohio Schools

(Beloit, Ohio) At Beloit Elementary and West Branch Middle Schools, 35 students and two adults were found to be afflicted with unexplained rashes causing the school district officials to send students home last Friday. Yesterday, schools reopened, having been sanitized over the weekend.

Unfortunately, the rash problem resurfaced and officials decided to close the schools again today. No cause for the rashes has been identified. Health officials are calling it non-contagious dermatitis.

A report from Florida indicates that a similar unexplained outbreak of rashes has afflicted residents in the Fairway Oaks community of Duval County. In Florida and Ohio, health department officials are scratching their heads.


[Update 03/27/07]

It's now reported that a mysterious rash has emerged in Forest Park, Georgia.