150 kids sick at St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens
Saturday, April 25th 2009, 4:00 AM
A mysterious illness has gripped the nation's largest Catholic high school.
About 150 students were sent home from St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens on Thursday and Friday after developing flulike symptoms, officials said.
The Health Department was testing students to rule out whether it was a strain of swine flu that has killed 60 people in Mexico.
"Whatever it was moved quickly through the student body," Assistant Principal Patrick McLaughlin said.
Similar illnesses gripped large numbers of students at Edmund W. Miles Middle School, in Amityville, L.I., and Horace Greeley High School, in Chappaqua, N.Y., last week, school officials there confirmed. Students recovered quickly, they said.
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