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Norovirus

June 2024

  • canyon with waterfall above a body of water surrounded by branches and green bushes

    Dozens of hikers report illness on trips to waterfalls by Arizona’s Grand Canyon

    People camping on Havasupai reservation say they vomited and had fever as health officers look into source of outbreak

December 2023

  • Medic walking in hospital corridor

    NHS in England facing ‘storm of pressure’ as flu and Covid cases surge

    Average of 3,631 patients in hospital with Covid during Christmas week, data shows, a rise of 57% in a month

November 2023

  • Nurse walking through hospital corridor

    Number in hospital with norovirus in England 179% higher than last year

    Admissions caused by vomiting and diarrhoea-causing virus almost three times up on same time in 2022

March 2023

  • Norovirus

    Norovirus cases in over-65s in England at highest in a decade

    Care homes hard hit while overall cases up 24% on pre-Covid five-season average

February 2023

  • Norovirus, illustration<br>Norovirus, computer illustration. Norovirus is a genus of RNA (ribonucleic acid) viruses (of the family Caliciviridae), which cause about half of all gastroenteritis cases around the world. The disease is characterised by nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain. The diarrhoea results in fluid loss and dehydration, which may become life-threatening in the young, the elderly, and the immunocompromised if not treated promptly.

    US registers rise in highly infectious norovirus causing stomach illness

    CDC says positive tests for virus, which causes nausea, diarrhea and stomach pain, peaked at 16% in January

January 2023

  • Symptoms of viral gastroenteritis include nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, abdominal pain, headache and muscle aches.

    Loss of immunity due to lockdowns behind spike in NSW gastro cases, diseases expert suggests

    NSW residents urged to be on the lookout for symptoms and guard against infection in period before children return to school

December 2022

  • Staff inside the paediatrics department at the Royal Brompton hospital in London

    Flu and other viruses pile pressure on NHS as waiting lists hit new high

    RSV and norovirus also on rise, while charity says patient care at risk with 7.2m awaiting treatment in England

July 2021

  • ‘Having sanitiser and face masks at home is unlikely to have been the case a few years ago’.

    The Séamas O’Reilly column
    Can our Covid training save me from norovirus?

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • The norovirus

    Norovirus warning as bug spreads in England after lockdown eased

February 2020

  • Oysters lie on a sorting belt in a factory in Cancale, France

    UK food poisoning cases twice as common as previously thought

    Eating out accounts for 37% of norovirus cases as FSA puts total figure at 2.4m a year

December 2019

  • An empty hospital bed

    Norovirus forces NHS England to close 1,100 hospital beds

    People with bug urged to stay at home with twice as many beds shut as this time last year

May 2018

  • You’re more likely to catch norovirus at your local supermarket than from eating an oyster.

    Shortcuts
    If seven in 10 oysters have norovirus, should we still be eating them?

    They are tasty, nutritious and having a renaissance – why it’s time to stop worrying and enjoy them

August 2017

  • Norovirus hits 30 at World Athletics Championships – video

  • Isaac Makwala

    London 2017: 30 people fall ill after norovirus hits athletics event

December 2016

  • A hospital bed

    Norovirus cases in England at highest level in five years

    Total of 163 hospital outbreaks reported so far this season, as vomiting bug results in more bed closures than this time last year
  • The FSA can use people self-reporting sickness on social media to correctly predict an increase in norovirus up to 80% of the time.

    Shortcuts
    How to stop a norovirus outbreak: tweet when you vomit

    The Food Standards Agency has enlisted Twitter to track the spread of the norovirus, based on people tweeting about being ill
  • Norovirus

    Norovirus cases at highest level for five years this winter

    1,704 cases of diarrhoea and vomiting bug are already confirmed in England, 55% higher than during same period last year

November 2016

  • Line of school books and study materials on the shelf with a Russian dictionary on top of the stack.

    Brief letters
    Don’t leave translator out of sexy threesome

    Brief letters: The Story of Sex | Wise doctors | Jeans on older people | Fifa and red poppies | Wahaca norovirus outbreak | Trumpocalypse

May 2016

  • Tim Dowling

    Notebook
    Why have a political debate when you could arm-wrestle instead?

    Tim Dowling
  • The Balmoral, operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, is docked in Norfolk on April 29.

    Hundreds of UK cruise passengers fall ill in possible norovirus outbreak

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