Noroviruses, also known as food poisoning or the stomach bug, are “common and highly contagious,” according to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. About 1 in 15 people across the ...

In the United States, noroviruses are the single most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in adults that results in a visit to the hospital emergency department, and they are second only to ...

Noroviruses have been called "the perfect human pathogens." They’re a type of highly contagious stomach bug that causes severe vomiting and diarrhea, along with headache, fever and body aches.

As if colds, influenza and other respiratory infections weren’t enough to make Minnesotans ill in winter, this is also the time of year when digestive tract illness caused by a family of ...

"Noroviruses were generally thought of as strict human pathogens," explains Professor Paul Hunter, Professor in Medicine at ...

PHAC reports that noroviruses are responsible for a large majority of outbreaks of epidemic gastroenteritis. "People might have heard of an uptick in norovirus — it's a nasty gastrointestinal ...

However, it is important to take the appropriate hygiene measures as soon as you suspect you have the virus to help protect ...