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440 prisoners sick in Huntville's Wynne Unit

Posted on August 03, 2008
Houston's KHOU-TV is reporting: Inmates at the Wynne Unit in Huntsville aren't getting any visitors this weekend. The state health department found evidence of a norovirus at the facility. The unit's now under a medical quarantine after 440 prisoners and 28 staff members have become sick...

What is Norovirus?

Posted on July 30, 2008
About Norovirus The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that noroviruses cause 23 million cases of acute gastroenteritis annually, making noroviruses the leading cause of gastroenteritis in the United States (CDC, 2006; Fankhauser, et al...

62 Likely Victims Of Norovirus At Oklahoma's Grand Lake

Posted on July 26, 2008
There's nothing like a good Norovirus outbreak to ruin a summer vacation.   That's what they are finding out this weekend at the Windmill Run Marina on Oklahoma's popular Grand Lake. News OK tonight has this report: The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality issued an emergency order Friday for a condo complex on Grand Lake to shut down its water system because several dozen people have become sick since June...

More Than 200 Down With Norovirus In New York State

Posted on July 20, 2008
Long Island's newspaper, Newsday, this weekend is covering a norovirus outbreak in Dutchess County, New York. More than 200 people are sick from the gastrointestinal virus. The newspaper reported that Dutchess County Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Caldwell says his agency is working with the state Health Department to identify the cause of the 24-hour stomach illness...

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"Norovirus" Makes It Into Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Posted on July 07, 2008
The word "Norovirus" has been added to the new Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Its one of about 100 "new" words recognized by the folks at Merriam-Webster. Norovirus, according to Merriam-Webster, is any of a genus of small round single-stranded RNA viruses: specifically, the Norwalk Virus...

Campers Are Not Feeling Good At YMCA of Rockies

Posted on June 19, 2008
During the winter, the YMCA of the Rockies is one of the finest cross-country skiing areas in the West.  During the summer, its facilities serve hundreds if not thousands of young people.   Norovirus attacked the camp three years ago during the 2005 season...

Sounds Like Norovirus At Madison SciFi Convention

Posted on May 30, 2008
Little green men running around at a Science-Fiction convention would not get that much notice, but when everybody turns green... Well, that's a problem.Dozens of people attending the SciFi gathering in Madison, Wisconsin did turn a little green and health officials are not yet sure why...

4,000 In Turkey Recovering From Norovirus Outbreak

Posted on May 22, 2008
Four thousand diarrhea cases in the central Anatolian city of Aksaray in Turkey will probably get the award for this season's largest outbreak of Norovirus.  "A rash of diarrhea cases first appeared in the province on May 13, and health experts determined that the outbreak stemmed from contaminated water," Today's Zaman, a Turkish news publication, reports...

Norovirus Hits Salem Mission: At Least 20 Are Sick

Posted on May 15, 2008
You have to love Norovirus.   It goes from Five Star Hotels to fancy venues like San Francisco's Moscone Center before it lands on the simple Salem Mission, Oregon's Capital City's 34-bed homeless center on Mission Street.Residents and staff at Salem Mission caught the highly contagious virus last week, Oregon health officials say...

More Than 70 Catch Norovirus At JavaOne

Posted on May 10, 2008
Sun Microsystems urged people to "Catch the Buzz" at JavaOne.  By the time "Sun Fellow" James Gosling was wrapping up the annual open source event at San Francisco's famed Moscone Center, more than 70 people who attended JavaOne were sick with norovirus...

Was Food Contaminated At Chipotle Or Before It Got There?

Posted on May 05, 2008
As we said in our last post, we always do appreciate local media doing follow-up stories, especially when it involves an outbreak. The Akron Beacon Journal is staying on the norovirus outbreak at the Kent, Ohio Chipotle Mexican Grill. More than 400 Chipotle customers got sick...

Ohio Outbreak Was Norovirus Genotype G2, Lab Reports Confirm

Posted on April 28, 2008
Something you do not see often enough these days is good follow up stories from television news operations.  Cleveland's CBS affiliate, 19 ActionNews, is an exception, however, as a week later is it doing a good follow up on what happened with the norovirus outbreak at the Kent, Ohio Chipolte Mexican Grill...

Norovirus Suspected At Chipotle Mexican Grill In Ohio

Posted on April 21, 2008
"Chipotle Mexican Grill is the Bono of the fast-food business."   So says the current issue of the magazine Fast Company.   Point of the story is how everybody loves it.Well, not everybody likes Bono and Chipotle just made a few hundred people sick with norovirus...

Common Misspellings of Norovirus - Noravirus, Norvirus, Noroviruses, Nurovirus

Posted on April 18, 2008
Noroviruses are estimated to cause 23 million cases of acute gastroenteritis (commonly called the "stomach flu") in the U.S. each year, and are the leading cause of gastroenteritis. Of viruses, only the common cold is reported more often than viral gastroenteritis (norovirus)...

University of Denver Dealing With Norovirus Outbreak

Posted on April 17, 2008
9News, Denver's NBC affiliate, is reporting tonight on a norovirus outbreak.   Sick are 63 students at the University of Denver.  9News reports that:Denver Health Department officials say the students were afflicted with the Norovirus, a group of viruses that cause the stomach flu and can be spread by direct contact with contaminated surfaces, people, food or other objects...

Norovirus Pops Up In Montana's Lake County

Posted on April 12, 2008
Outbreaks of norovirus continue around the country.   This latest report comes from Lake County, Montana.   Montana's News Stations are reporting: Four confirmed cases of people infected with the Norovirus have been reported in Polson...

Sorority Girls Get Sick After Dining At Adams Mill

Posted on April 04, 2008
A University of Connecticut sorority picked the wrong place to hold its banquet.  About 30 sorority women were treated by UConn's infirmary after dining at the nearby Adams Mill Restaurant.  Norovirus is suspected.Grace E. Merritt, writing in the Hartford Courant, reports:UConn sent out a campuswide e-mail Thursday detailing the outbreak and urging precautions to prevent the virus from spreading on campus...

Yep It Was Norovirus; Source Unknown

Posted on March 27, 2008
The New York Department of Health has made it official.  Norovirus made nearly 400 guests sick at the Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark in Queensbury, New York.Capital News 9 reports:The department has concluded that the illness was in fact a norovirus...

Great Escape Into World of Vomit

Posted on March 21, 2008
When we first read about people getting sick at the Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Water Park, we were drawn to the comments that followed the story.   There we learned that people with getting sick within four hours of checking-in.   One couple told of the fact that the facility had so many people vomiting, that it was out of towels!The mystery illness is looking more and more like norovirus...

Ontario City Gets More Than Its Share of Norovirus

Posted on March 15, 2008
We may have found the one place in North America that's suffered from more norovirus outbreaks this winter than anywhere else.   The prize, we think,  goes to Peterborough, Ontario.The Peterborough Examiner reports the Canadian city/county has experienced eight norovirus outbreaks in the past 14 months...

Norovirus Closes Omaha Psych Ward

Posted on March 04, 2008
Throw a dart at a map of the United States and you've got a good chance of hitting someplace where a lot of people are suffering from norovirus.   The latest to fall to the virus is the 65-bed inpatient psychiatric unit at Omaha's Immanuel Medical Center...

Norovirus Stops Admissions At Top Denver Area Hospital

Posted on February 21, 2008
We've been tracking norovirus outbreaks around the country all winter.  It's never good news, but when it hits an important medical center; it's especially  bad.  Tonight comes this news from the Denver Post:One of the nation's top rehabilitation hospitals has a stomach bug, officials at Craig Hospital in Englewood said tonight...

Norovirus Finds Its Way To Wenatchee, Washington

Posted on February 12, 2008
The Washington State towns of Wenatchee and East Wenatchee are the latest places to be experiencing norovirus outbreaks.The Wenatchee World, the local newspaper, reports that 10 to 22 percent of the students at the Waterville schools and Orchard Middle School have called in sick during the past month...

Posh San Francisco Bay Hotel Makes Chamber Members Sick

Posted on February 03, 2008
We've all been there.  You have to make an appearance at the local Chamber of Commerce's annual dinner.  It usually means you have to make it through an endless series of self-serving speeches, but at least you can go home when it all over.Those atttending the Jan...

Villanova Suffers From Norovirus

Posted on January 26, 2008
Villanova University has become the latest campus to experience an outbreak of the norovirus.From WPVI-TV, an ABC affiliate on Channel 6, comes this report:Villanova University is experiencing an outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness. School officials said it is most likely norovirus, the so-called "cruise ship virus...

Norovirus Hits Florida Coast Resort

Posted on January 20, 2008
Do you think it's possible that some British tourist decided the best way to get away from the norovirus outbreak would be to check into a nice Florida beach hotel?  If that traveler exists, then just think about all those other unlucky guests at the Hilton Singer Island Resort in Riviera Beach, Florida where 83 people have been struck by the norovirus...

Young and Old Both Suffer in Norovirus Outbreak

Posted on January 14, 2008
Both  the young and the old are suffering from a norovirus outbreak in Corvallis, hometown of Oregon State University.  The victims are found at the Regency Park Place Retirement Home, the Phi Delta Theta fraternity,  and the Delta Gamma Sorority, according to local press reports...

Norovirus Cases in UK Double; Worst In 5 Years

Posted on January 10, 2008
The largest private health insurance and health services company in the United Kingdom, BUPA, reports a doubling in the number of people getting sick from norovirus.  BUPA says:"Almost twice as many people were infected with norovirus, the bug responsible for the "winter vomiting" crisis, at the end of 2007 compared with 2006, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA)...

UK Norovirus Outbreak Making 100,000 A Week Sick

Posted on January 04, 2008
You may have heard there is an outbreak of Norovirus across the pond in the United Kingdom.  How bad is it?  Pretty awful, according to this report from OnMedica News:Current figures suggest that some 100,000 people a week in the UK are contracting norovirus, commonly known as winter vomiting disease, and the number of cases is likely to continue to rise in the early weeks of the new year...

Santa Cruz County hotel restaurant - Sanderlings - closed after more than 80 patrons sickened

Posted on November 18, 2007
Santa Cruz Sentinel reported that more than 80 people who ate at a Santa Cruz County hotel restaurant reported getting sick in the past week and health officials blame it on something simple: failure to wash hands. The Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency issued an advisory Friday, saying it was investigating how more than 1,000 people were exposed to the gastrointestinal virus during the past seven days...

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