Food handler strikes soldiers with virus at Fort Benning

Some 150 soldiers at Fort Benning in Georgia have come down with what they suspect is a foodborne virus.

Common areas likes dining halls, barracks and buses are being sterilized, down to chairs and banisters.

Officials suspect it was spread by a food handler who was sick and coughed on the food or had dirty hands.
 

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