By Monica Galarza and Marissa Bagg • Published July 13, 2023 • Updated on July 13, 2023 at 6:49 pm NBC6’s Marissa Bagg has more on what officials want you to know to stay safe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting the highest number of norovirus outbreaks in over a decade and it is impacting hundreds of passengers and crew members onboard...
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Norovirus and Shigella outbreaks, State Health Leaders give tips to know the differences
by Jedediah HoytSun, March 12th 2023, 5:45 PM MST KEPR Action News Tri-Cities Wash. — State health leaders say outbreaks of stomach flu-like illnesses like Norovirus and Shigella, often spread quickly through communities, and say symptoms can often be similar and hard to identify during an outbreak. Health leaders say shigella is a bacterium, while norovirus is a virus, but...
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Norovirus is spiking across the United States – Often called “stomach flu,” it isn’t a flu at all, but it is very contagious
Norovirus is a gastrointestinal illness that causes vomiting, diarrhea, and is highly contagious. Callista Images/Getty Images Norovirus—an unpleasant and contagious stomach virus—is spreading in the United States, even closing a school in suburban Detroit for days last week. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that positive tests are at a seasonal high throughout...
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Norovirus link to Crohn’s disease may point to new therapies
NYU LANGONE HEALTH / NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE A new study may have solved a mystery surrounding Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel illness where immune defenses, meant to attack invading microbes, instead mistakenly target the body’s own digestive tract. Norovirus, a common infection that causes vomiting and diarrhea, is one of several viruses and...
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Norovirus outbreaks have increased to prepandemic levels
The number of norovirus outbreaks increased in the 2021 to 2022 surveillance year, returning to levels similar to prepandemic levels, according to research published in the Sept. 23 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Anita K. Kambhampati, M.P.H., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues examined norovirus...
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Scientists discover norovirus and other ‘stomach viruses’ can spread through saliva
by National Institutes of Health A microscopic view of salivary gland acinar epithelial cells (pink) infected with rotavirus (green), a type of enteric virus, in a mouse. Credit: Nihal Altan-Bonnet (NIH/NHLBI) A class of viruses known to cause severe diarrheal diseases—including the one famous for widespread outbreaks on cruise ships—can grow in the salivary glands...
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Scientists Discover The Secret Weapon Of Stomach Viruses
Researchers have discovered why some stomach bugs hit us so hard — and spread so fast. New research published Wednesday in Cell Host & Microbe found that stomach infections, like norovirus and rotavirus, are more contagious and more potent when the virus particles cluster together. A cluster of rotaviruses. The image is from a transmission...