The Most Common Foodborne Illness in the US
The Utah Department of Health says dozens of people attending business conferences in Park City were confirmed to have contracted Norovirus, a sickness that causes flu-like symptoms.
Officials say people attending two separate business conferences came down with the sickness. They believe the outbreak is over, but they still want everyone to be careful and…
The Utah Department of Health says dozens of people attending business conferences in Park City were confirmed to have contracted Norovirus, a sickness that causes flu-like symptoms.
Officials say people attending two separate business conferences came down with the sickness. They believe the outbreak is over, but they still want everyone to be careful and…
Several outbreaks of Norovirus have been reported across the state according to the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.
The department reports Norovirus is the most common of the viruses that cause gastroenteritis.
Symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain.
Riverstone Health recommends people in day care, schools and health care stay…
North Carolina State University will use a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to strengthen food safety by studying human noroviruses across the food supply chain in an effort to design effective control measures and reduce the number of virus-caused food-borne illnesses.
Human noroviruses are the…
North Carolina State University will use a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to strengthen food safety by studying human noroviruses across the food supply chain in an effort to design effective control measures and reduce the number of virus-caused food-borne illnesses.
Human noroviruses are the…
The Oregon State Public Health Laboratory says recent fecal samples from some of the nearly 100 people who reported getting ill after visiting Elk Lake Resort in recent weeks have tested positive for Norovirus, officials said Thursday.
Although the drinking water at Elk Lake Resort tested positive for Coliform bacteria, it is now conclusive that…
For the fourth time since mid-May, the Se Princess’s passengers have been sickened by norovirus, a gastrointestinal infection that causes diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain.
At the end of a 10-day sailing, the ship returned to San Francisco June 29 with 53 of its 2,196 passengers affected by the stomach bug, according to USA Today.…
A recent norovirus outbreak onboard the Alaska cruise ship Sea Princess sickened more than a hundred passengers.
Princess Cruises says a total of 142 people became ill during the ship’s May 30th-to-June 9th cruise, which visited Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay and Ketchikan.
The San Francisco-based ship’s next departure was pushed back while crews disinfected the…
Diana Samuels reports that an outbreak of norovirus has sickened more than two-dozen people at The Sequoias in Portola Valley, an official at the retirement community said Tuesday. Officials have closed the retirement community’s dining room and canceled social activities, said Rick Isaacs, The Sequoias’ skilled nursing administrator. Family members and others are “encouraged not…
The Kalamazoo County health department has issued an advisory about a “sharp increase in the number of people ill with norovirus” in the past week.
“We don’t have any numbers” because norovirus cases don’t have to be reported to the health department, said Linda Buzas, Kalamazoo County health director. But “we’re getting lots of calls…