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Norovirus Is Spreading Fast
As frantically as I worked to scrub my hands and face with soap and water and get all the clothes and bedding into the ...
Learn the differences between norovirus, rotavirus, stomach flu and COVID and the best ways to treat each one.
They are divided into 6 major genogroups designated GI through GVI. GI and GII contain the majority of norovirus strains associated with human diseases and are further divided into about 30 genotypes.
Lehigh Valley’s health networks are seeing abnormally high cases of the stomach bug that’s taking a large number of people ...
Nationwide, outbreaks of norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhea ... year is believed partly to be due to a strain known as GII.17[P17] that has not been widely prevalent for several ...
William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, discusses the symptoms of norovirus, how best to treat it ...
This article was originally featured on The Conversation. The highly contagious norovirus – popularly known as “stomach flu” or the “winter vomiting bug” – is now surging through the U.S..
However, one illness in particular has been spreading at a rapid rate across America. Norovirus is the the leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea in the United States. It infects an average of ...
And, frustratingly, a number of go-to disinfecting tools (we're looking at you, hand sanitizer) can't be used to combat norovirus. "Many general household soaps and detergents are ineffective at ...