34 at Prison Stricken With Mystery Illness
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MAYO, Fla. — Thirty-three guards and an inmate came down with a mysterious ailment at a state prison for serious offenders, and investigators focused on the mail room.
Most of those who first became ill Thursday at the 1,400-inmate Mayo Correctional Institution in north Florida work in the mail room, said Ron Sachs, a spokesman for Gov. Lawton Chiles. They complained of nausea, burning eyes, dizziness and tightening of the chest.
All were treated at a hospital and released.
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