Vomit apocalypse camp now hit with E. coli exiled kids have nowhere to go, as rich parents holiday in Europe

It’s the gift that keeps on giving.Just days after a fast-moving gastrointestinal outbreak that swept through one of Pennsylvania’s best-known sleepaway camps, camp directors informed parents that one camper tested positive for E.coli — while insisting the infection was unrelated to the camp’s food or water, according to emails reviewed by The Post.Tyler Hill director Andy Siegel told parents that a child who became ill roughly a week earlier had tested positive for a strain of E.

coli.According to the child’s physician, the particular strain identified is transmitted through person-to-person contact and is “not believed to be connected to food or camp food-service operations.”The camp said it is aware of only one confirmed E.coli case and noted that the child had largely recovered before the test results became available.

Parents were also told antibiotics were not recommended in the case.A camp spokesman confirmed to The Post that the case was reported to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.The disclosure comes after The Post reported this week that parents said dozens of campers had fallen ill with gastrointestinal distress, overflowing the infirmaries and filling them beyond capacity.Some children were sent home as the illness spread through the Wayne County sleepaway camp—something that parents allege to The Post happens repeatedly.“Every year Tyler Hill has some outbreak of different illnesses; they wait days to inform parents.The director’s solution is to send the sick home,” one parent, who asked not to be identified, told The Post.Camp officials rejected that claim, saying the last comparable stomach virus outbreak occurred in 2012.“Like in that year, this bug has hit quite a few camps and was reported to be going around in the NY Region for more than two months prior to the start of camp,” the camp spokesperson said.

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