the diarrhea lettuce scare<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cAnd apparently,\u201d he wrote, \u201cit was a stomach bug.\u201d<\/p>\n
The vicious bug, expected to last only 36 hours, is overflowing the health center and leaving the cabins filled with vomit. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
Though parents opted to take their children home for a few days to control the spread following Alumni Day, which was held on July 26th, Tyler Hill was effectively already \u2018camp zero \u2019\u2014a nickname that has spread through parents and anonymous social media accounts, though exactly where the outbreak originated remains unclear.<\/p>\n
Timber Lake Camp, located in the nearby Catskills and charges $18,225 for the 2027 summer, told parents their Health Center has had 15 campers and staff, mainly in the younger age groups, with gastrointestinal symptoms and a handful of campers who have also gone home for 2-3 days.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first, given the volume of food that was left here from Visiting Day, we thought it to be just a matter of campers gorging themselves, as usual,\u201d the email from the directors said.<\/p>\n
The contagious bug is spreading to nearby camps, such as Timber Lake, which participated in an intercamp sporting event. Timber Lake Camp<\/p>\n
However, as vomit ensued, it was surmised that the bug likely came from a basketball intercamp invitational, with several other camps reporting similar outbreaks.<\/p>\n
The camps \u2014 popular with families from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Florida and serving largely East Coast Jewish communities \u2014 operate in a tight-knit ecosystem where campers, siblings, counselors and sports frequently overlap.<\/p>\n
Because of this, Timber Lake\u2019s housekeeping staff is working overtime on a round-the-clock \u201cdisinfecting campaign\u201d that involves aerial spraying from special backpacks akin to Ghostbusters, said to kill gastrointestinal viruses on impact.<\/p>\n
Parents joke online about the rapid spread and the failed quarantine efforts. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
Puking stations on both the boys and girls campuses have been set up with protective masks, gear, and supplies to deal with what administrators delicately described as \u201cany messes which may arise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Directors also wrote that they\u2019d \u201ccommandeered most of this month\u2019s Florida lemon crop\u201d \u2014\u00a0serving one-ounce lemon shots to campers at breakfast despite admitting they weren\u2019t sure they\u2019d actually work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how much excitement and fun there was at breakfast this morning as campers held up their lemon shots, downed them and then threw their cups into the garbage cans,\u201d a note read.<\/p>\n
If lemon shots weren\u2019t enough, there were also elderberry gummy supplements.<\/p>\n
Health centers have reportedly been inundated this summer with parents\u2019 requests for vitamins and medication for children. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
The vitamin regimen comes as camp infirmaries have become increasingly complex operations. <\/p>\n
A recent New York Magazine feature detailed how today\u2019s campers arrive with individualized medication schedules that have transformed health centers into mini pharmacies tasked with sorting a plethora of daily regimens for hundreds of campers.<\/p>\n
Timber Lake confirmed that one in five campers has been taking Elderberry gummies since the start of the summer with their vitamins each morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, since I have been bombarded with requests, IF YOU DO NOT WANT US TO PROVIDE AN ELDERBERRY GUMMY TO YOUR CAMPER WHO REQUESTS IT, please just email me back, and we will not provide it,\u201d the email said.<\/p>\n
Trail\u2019s End wants to ensure that excitement for Olympics and the final weeks of summer remain. Trail’s End Camp<\/p>\n
At Trail\u2019s End, another co-ed camp located in Beach Lake, PA that costs $18,625 per season, parents told The Post that following a lacrosse tournament at Tyler Hill, 7 campers came down with the pukes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be pausing all intercamp tournaments for the next day or two while we monitor the situation,\u201d a message from the director reviewed by The Post said.<\/p>\n
For the parents cutting the hefty tuition check to send their children away for the summer, this is a nightmare for everyone involved\u2014despite understanding that children in close quarters get sick.<\/p>\n
Instead of refreshing the camp photo website hoping to spot their kid in activities or scoring a winning goal, parents have spent the week wondering if their child has thrown up that day.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, camp kids are remarkably resilient.<\/p>\n
Many of the campers who briefly went home are already expected back to finish the summer.<\/p>\n
Tyler Hill, Timber Lake, and Trail\u2019s End did not respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oh, barf! Parents who shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to send their children to camp this…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":967352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1165,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,28756,1176,30100,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-967351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-lifestyle","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-parenting-advice","tag-summer","tag-summer-camp","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117004724310481925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}