Exclusive | Anxious NYC parents left scrambling as vicious vomit bug sweeps pricey summer camps: Ran out of toilets

Oh, barf! NYC parents who shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to send their children to camp this summer received shocking news from the front this week — several pricey sleepaway spots in the Poconos and Catskills were in chaos after a nasty stomach bug swept through the secluded sites, sending kiddies, counselors and staff legging it to the latrines.Families routinely shell out roughly $19,000 per child, per year, for seven weeks of waterskiing, lifelong friendships, and championship games.But nobody budgets for projectile vomiting.

The final two weeks each summer are supposed to be about color war — not sanitation wars.Frustrated parents who spoke to The Post anonymously, allege the outbreak began at Tyler Hill, a 7-week-long camp in Wayne County, Pa., shortly after visiting day in mid-July.The camp, which is home to nearly 500 campers from June to August charges $18,475 for a summer season, according to their website.

“I’ve been told somewhere in the realm of half the camp has gotten it,” one parent told The Post.“They ran out of beds in the health center; they ran out of toilets to throw up in.”Nothing bonds East Coast camp parents quite like a crisis.

Screenshots of camp emails and text chains circulated faster than the stomach bug itself.Reports of bunkhouses are being thrown into chaos.

Infirmaries oversubscribed.And some campers are fleeing the scene to recover back at home.

But what might normally have stayed confined to whispered parent group chats has instead exploded into a full-blown sleep away camp scandal.Anonymous Instagram accounts devoted to camp gossip have posted tips, turning the ugly event into arguably the biggest drama of the summer.One mother who drove to pick up her child at the after hearing the camp health center was overwhelmed with the puke apocalypse described arriving at the bunk that resembled the aftermath of a fraternity formal with sick campers and buckets of vomit strewn about the cabin, and everything ...