Los Angeles County sees the biggest rise in coronavirus cases, adding 61 new positives
Los Angeles County public health officials today announced the region’s biggest single-day jump in confirmed cases of the coronavirus, adding sixty-one new cases, making it 101 in the past 48 hours and 292 overall, More...
Johns Hopkins study: New UV Light Decontamination System effective against MRSA, HIV, C Diff, others
Spectra254, a developer of high-power, easy-to-use, affordable UVC light decontamination systems, has released a recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine that reports that Spectra254’s Spectra 1000 Series of UV More...
Norovirus confirmed as etiology of ‘Explorer of the Seas’ outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now confirmed the etiological agent of the outbreak that caused gastrointestinal illness in nearly 700 passengers and crew onboard the Royal Caribbean vessel, More...
Royal Caribbean’s ‘Explorer of the Seas’: GI outbreak sickens 300 passengers and crew
Greater than 9 percent of the over 3,000 passengers aboard Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas have reported the gastrointestinal symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, resembling norovirus, on their 10-day More...
Bakery workers linked to norovirus outbreak in Japanese schoolkids
In a follow-up to a report late last week where nearly 1,000 people, primarily schoolchildren, contracted the gastrointestinal infection norovirus, an investigation reveals the source of the outbreak was three More...
‘Possible’ norovirus strikes Royal Caribbean’s ‘Majesty of the Seas’, 68 passengers and crew sickened
More than five dozen passengers and crew on Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas have been sickened with a gastrointestinal illness, according to a CBS 12 News report Friday. The cruise ship docked in Miami More...
Japan: Norovirus sickens over 900 schoolkids in Hamamatsu
More than 900 schoolchildren and 41 teachers in 14 schools in the Japanese city of Hamamatsu have been sickened by the gastrointestinal bug, norovirus, causing them to miss school, according to a Voices of Russia More...
Norovirus sickens nearly 250 Taiwan tourists in South Korea
About 60 percent of the 412 Taiwanese tourists visiting South Korea have been sickened by the symptoms of the gastrointestinal bug, norovirus, according to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in a Taipai More...
Kansas: Health officials investigate ‘suspected’ norovirus outbreak linked to Garden City Jimmy John’s
The Finney County Health Department, along with the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), are investigating a gastrointestinal outbreak that has sickened More...
Kamloops restaurant, Dorian Greek House, the source of norovirus outbreak that sickened dozens of hospital employees
Last week, dozens of staff illnesses were reported at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops after a Christmas lunch, that in the end sickened at least 36 operating room staff, causing 26 surgeries to be postponed More...
MIT outbreak: ‘This may or may not be norovirus’ says Medical Director
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is reporting an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis, which is manifested with symptoms like diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, according to officials at MIT Medical this More...
Norovirus confirmed in Las Vegas outbreak
In a follow-up to a report Sunday, the Southern Nevada Health District has confirmed the illnesses it is currently investigating among a group of attendees of the National Youth Football Championship event as More...
‘Possible’ norovirus sickens dozens at youth football championship in Las Vegas
Some 100 children and adults were stricken with flu-like symptoms, including vomiting in Las Vegas in recent days attending and playing in the National Youth Football Championships, according to a KSNV MyNews3.com More...
Canada norovirus outbreak: 170 Sam Sherratt Public School students absent today
A norovirus outbreak at a Milton, Ontario school has left the school nearly half empty today, according to the Halton District School Board (HDSB). NorovirusImage/CDC The school district announced on it’s More...
Stanford University: Florence Moore Hall being sanitized after likely norovirus outbreak
The Florence Moore Hall is undergoing a complete sanitization Friday and Saturday after dozens of Stanford University students were sickened with probable norovirus after dining at the facility, according to More...
Investigational Norovirus vaccine reduces symptoms by more than 50 percent
An investigational vaccine appears generally well tolerated and effective against the most common strain of norovirus, reducing the main symptoms of the gastrointestinal (GI) infection, vomiting and/or diarrhea, More...
Norovirus outbreak on cruise ship, ‘Celebrity Summit’ sickens at least 321
Scores of passengers and crew aboard Celebrity Cruise Lines, Celebrity Summit have been sickened with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea due to norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention More...
British health officials advise about norovirus as the winter approaches
Health authorities with the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust issued a advisory today for the public on the “winter vomiting disease”, norovirus, as the season approaches. NorovirusImage/CDC They More...
Florida: Norovirus linked to illnesses at Manatee Bay Elementary in Weston
The illness that sickened some 300 students last week with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea at a Weston, Florida elementary school, has been identified as norovirus, according to a WSVN-TV report yesterday. Manatee More...
Suspected norovirus strikes Fred Olsen’s ‘Black Watch’ and Cunard’s ‘Queen Mary 2’ cruises
A gastrointestinal disease, suspected to be norovirus, has sickened dozens in two cruise lines as reported in different British news sources. The BBC reports that at least 130 passengers of Fred Olsen’s More...
