Norovirus is the cause of 58 percent of food-borne illness in the US. It is sometimes known as the Norwalk virus, named after the first strain of norovirus identified in Norwalk, Ohio in the 1970s.
Bridgepoint Health, a prominent hospital in Toronto for people with chronic diseases was shut down on Valentine's Day following an outbreak of the Norwalk virus. Diane Whidden, a spokesperson for ...
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Newspaper headlines have blared the names of highly contagious bugs - most notably, the Norwalk virus - that most people had never heard of. And for anxious travelers who once thought of cruise ...
Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...
The current focus is on viruses that are causative agents of endemic severe diarrhea in humans. These viruses include rotavirus, calicivirus, and Norwalk virus. Rotavirus is the major pathogen of ...