At a baby shower today, one of the nurses mentioned that the adult docs
are seeing an itchy, all over rash that sounds like this that they think
is viral. One of the docs got it himself and was miserable.
Fortunately short lived rash. I have seen a couple toddlers with
something mysterious, too. Does not look much like Fifth Disease to me.
Vicki
Chamblis wrote:
In Virginia-North Carolina newspapers today
Mystery Rash at Virginia Middle School Baffles Doctors, Makes Kids Itchy
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2-22-02
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press Writer
(AP) MANASSAS, Va.
Normally a bunch of middle-school students with skin problems would not be a
mystery. But acne is not the problem at Marsteller Middle School.
Hundreds of pupils and several staff members have contracted an unexplained
rash over the last two weeks and doctors are baffled.
So far, the school has been unable to find any chemical or contaminant that
could be causing the itching.
"We may never know what it is," said county schools spokeswoman Irene
Cromer.