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Alabama Elementary School Closed After 773 Students Absent in Mystery Gastrointestinal Illness Outbreak

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Some 50 staff members were also off on Wednesday.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

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Fairhope West Elementary School in Alabama closed after almost 800 students were absent amid a gastrointestinal illness outbreak.
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