美联社马萨诸塞州剑桥市电——官员称，哈佛大学附近一座教堂内，法国青年合唱团正在举行音乐会时，八名儿童出现类似癫痫发作的症状，已被送往医院救治。
剑桥消防部门在新闻稿中表示，相关症状不会危及生命。周二晚间在哈佛广场圣保罗教区参加音乐会的约70名其他人员未受影响。
消防队长托马斯·卡希尔表示，救援人员最初接到报警称一名儿童癫痫发作。当消防员抵达时，发现孩子正坐在教堂外，但并未处于癫痫发作状态。
卡希尔（Cahill）告诉WCVB电视台：“事态迅速升级，另有七人出现了类似癫痫发作的症状。”
新闻稿称，该部门的危险品处理小组“使用多台空气采样仪对圣保罗市的建筑物进行了全面检测，以确保不存在危险情况。检测结果为阴性，建筑物已进行通风处理。”
圣保罗大教堂的Facebook页面发布消息称，法国青年合唱团——法兰西岛儿童合唱团（Chœur d'Enfants d'Île-de-France）将于周二晚在教堂举办一场免费音乐会，作为其2025年美国巡演的一部分。
圣保罗大教堂表示："这支青年合唱团成立于1970年，曾多次赴世界各地巡演，并与多位世界顶尖指挥家和独奏家合作。音乐会将呈现宗教与世俗曲目的精彩融合，并演绎脍炙人口的法国歌曲。"
记者已通过电子邮件将采访请求发送至圣保罗学院（St. Paul's）及哈佛天主教中心——该机构是为哈佛大学学生及当地其他学术机构提供服务的天主教牧师办公室。
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Eight children at a church near Harvard University where a French youth choir was holding a concert suffered seizure-like symptoms and were taken to hospitals, officials said.
The symptoms were not life-threatening, the Cambridge Fire Department said in a news release. About 70 other people in attendance at the concert Tuesday evening at St. Pauls Parish in Harvard Square were not affected.
Crews first received a call about a child suffering from a seizure. When firefighters arrived, the child was sitting outside of the church but was not actively having a seizure, Fire Chief Thomas Cahill said.
That quickly escalated into seven other people having seizure-like symptoms, Cahill told WCVB-TV.
The departments hazmat team completed a thorough survey of the St. Paul buildings utilizing several air sampling meters to ensure that no hazardous conditions were present, the news release said. Results were negative and the buildings were ventilated.
St. Pauls Facebook Page said a French youth choir, the Ch04ur dEnfants d02le-de-France, was offering a free concert at the church on Tuesday night as part of its 2025 U.S. tour.
Founded in 1970, the youth choir has travelled extensively and performed with some of the worlds top conductors and soloists, St. Pauls said. The concert will feature and exciting mix of sacred and secular repertoire, as well as popular French songs.
Messages seeking comment were emailed to St. Pauls and to the Harvard Catholic Center, the Catholic chaplaincy for Harvard University students and other academic institutions in the area.
