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Don’t let your vacation go to ship — how to reduce your risk of norovirus, infectious diseases, food poisoning and more.
As the norovirus cases continue to spread in the U.S., you can't rely on hand sanitizer alone to protect you, experts warn. Norovirus causes gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea, vomiting ...
Plenty of people likely kicked off 2025 hunched over a toilet—but not because they’d imbibed too much on New Year’s Eve. Norovirus, informally dubbed the “winter vomiting disease,” is ...
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show cases of norovirus, the highly contagious stomach bug, are surging in the U.S.
Norovirus has been linked to twelve outbreaks on cruise ships this year, sickening nearly 1,500 people, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This number surpasses ...
Benjamin Lopman, an epidemiology professor at Emory University who previously worked for the CDC's viral diseases division, said shifts in norovirus strains happen "when new variants find ways ...
Norovirus, commonly called the stomach flu, though it’s unrelated to influenza, “spreads with remarkable ease,” Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt ...
Norovirus is highly contagious and the leading cause of foodborne illness in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The virus spreads easily through ...
Norovirus, a gastrointestinal illness so severe it has earned the evocative sobriquets “winter vomiting disease” and “two-bucket disease,” inspired by the vomiting and diarrhea ...
Cases of the illness known as norovirus — which induces miserable bouts of vomiting and diarrhea — are surging across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...
The most recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported during the week of Dec. 5, up from 69 outbreaks the last week of ...