Nearly 120 report sickness after Lake Minnetonka boating on July 4th [View all]

Nearly 120 people have reported getting sick after boating near Big Island on Lake Minnetonka over the long July 4th weekend, Hennepin County Public Health officials said.

As of Wednesday morning, the county said that 116 boaters on Minnetonka reported having been at Big Island during the holiday weekend and have since experienced vomiting and/or multiple episodes of diarrhea.

The Minnesota Department of Health is working to help determine the cause.

Eric Evenson, director of the Lake Minnetonka Association, said that he and a group went out to pick up litter around Big Island on Sunday. “We don’t know if it’s related or not, but one of the guys who helped got sick later,” he said.

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