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160 - Unit Senior Housing Complex In Santa Rosa, CA Deals With Norovirus Outbreak

Posted on June 23, 2009
Residents of a California senior housing complex canceled group meals and activities to combat a suspected outbreak of norovirus, health officials said. More than 20 of the 160 residents at Oakmont Gardens in Santa Rosa, CA reported flu-like symptoms, primarily nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, according to David Peironnet, executive director of the independent and assisted living senior apartment complex...

Norovirus Called "The Most Common Cause" Of Food-Borne Illness Outbreaks By CDC

Posted on June 12, 2009
Norovirus is on the upswing in the United States, a new report by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) suggests. No national surveillance system exists for Norovirus except where food-borne transmission is suspected. In last half of 2006, state public health departments began reporting more outbreaks involving acute gastroenteritis (AGE)...

Outbreak Causes Tamaru Hospital To Postpone Elective Surgeries As Number of Norovirus Cases Soars

Posted on June 09, 2009
It is the cool season down under. New Zealand is experiencing temperatures in the 50's this time of year. Maybe that is the reason for a soaring number of norovirus cases in Timaru, the fishing and cargo port on the South island. And, the outbreak is centered on Timaru Hospital where in the last 24 hours 19 patients and six staff members were suffering from norovirus symptoms...

Norovirus Victims Quarantined At Fairmont Chateau Whistler Hotel; At Least Rooms Have A View

Posted on June 02, 2009
Twenty-three people who arrived on the Rocky Mountaineer train from Calgary to Vancouver were quarantined in their rooms at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler yesterday with Norovirus symptoms. Public health officials confirmed the guests of the pricy hotel were being kept in their rooms...

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Georgia Long-Term Care Facility Limits Visitors Because Of Norovirus

Posted on May 20, 2009
 A norovirus outbreak at the Columbus, GA-based Gardens at Calvary means people will have to limit their visits to the long-term care facility. Several residents at the Gardens are ill with norovirus. The voluntary limit on the number of visitors entering the home took effect last week as control measures were implemented...

Norovirus Outbreak At Elementary School In Washington State

Posted on May 14, 2009
Up in the most northwest corner of the United States, officials at the Eagle Creek Elementary School in Arlington, WA are happy to be sending in the cleaning crews to scrub things down. That's because the 100 students and staff who got sick at the school have Norovirus, not the Swine Flu...

Holland, MI Parties Like Norovirus Is All In Its Past; And There Is No Swine Flu In Its Future

Posted on May 04, 2009
This past weekend in Holland, MI, "town and gown" activities included Hope College's graduation and class reunions; and the annual Tulip Festival.   Out of concern for Swine Flu, there was no kissing at graduation.   Handshakes, however, were encouraged...

"Swine Flu Rumors" Often Just Another Norovirus Outbreak

Posted on April 30, 2009
We are certain we could greatly up the number of hits on this blog if we re-named it "Swine Flu Rumors," but that would be wrong. However, we have seen and for a time will continue to see national reporters asking federal health officials about rumors of Swine Flu that are in fact nothing more than our old friend, the Norovirus...

California Community Of Davis Is Down With Norovirus

Posted on April 13, 2009
Going into last weekend, California's Yolo County Health Department went public with the news that the city of Davis is experiencing an outbreak of norovirus with 70 already ill. We cannot say whether Yolo County got the word out early or late Friday, but we suspect late because it really did not show up in the news until this morning...

MSU's Shaw Hall Cafeteria Closed Until At Least Saturday As Norovirus Strikes 30 Students

Posted on April 02, 2009
 Shaw Hall, a central cafeteria and dorm on the Michigan State University campus, is the latest victim of a norovirus outbreak. About 30 MSU students got the vomit disease. The Shaw Hall cafeteria is closed until at least Saturday morning, said university spokesperson Jason Cody...

Back To Class Order Given At Babson College After Norovirus Strikes Campus

Posted on April 01, 2009
Babson College is calling students back to classes after a norovirus outbreak that made dozens of students ill at the Wellesley campus during the last week. All regular and extracurricular activities were being held Wednesday, according to Babson spokesman Michael Chmura...

Hospitals, Nursing Homes, and Prisons--All Great Places For Norovirus

Posted on March 16, 2009
The Norovirus season is not giving up just yet. In Canada, the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region (RQHR) closed Unit 4B on March 11 after the virus was discovered. During the four-day outbreak three patients were confirmed to have Norovirus while an additional nine patients showed symptoms of the disease...

Cruise Ships Docks With A Boatload of Norovirus

Posted on March 01, 2009

Norovirus Is Having Its Way With Massachusetts

Posted on February 24, 2009
More than 60 Massachusetts hospitals and long-term care facilities this winter reported outbreaks of illnesses likely caused by norovirus, according to the state's Department of Public Health. State health officials worked with each of the facilities to ensure proper infection control procedures were followed...

Southeast Minnesota County Says 2008-09 Norovirus Is The Worst In 25 Years

Posted on February 01, 2009
The Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN is reporting that Olmsted County, MN is experiencing one of the worst norovirus seasons in its recent history.   The Post-Bulletin says: "The winter of 2008-2009 may be recorded as one of the worst Norovirus virus seasons in Olmsted County in 25 years," the county's Web site says...

Maine Is Fighting Off Norovirus Outbreak

Posted on January 20, 2009
 Maine is one of the places we'd think you could go to escape from a norovirus outbreak.  Today, however, the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention announced the state was dealing with two outbreak concerns.   It warned about the national Salmonella outbreak AND it announced the state is in the middle of its own Norovirus outbreak...

Michigan Continues to Be A Hotspot For Norovirus

Posted on January 14, 2009
 Norovirus is suspected of making a dozen people at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor sick.  Tests to confirm that suspicion are underway.     According to the Ann Arbor News,  a new business school cafeteria was cleaned and sanitized after seven food service workers and eight people who ate there reported becoming sick...

Fewer People Suffering This Winter in the UK

Posted on January 05, 2009
Across the pond, also known as the North Atlantic Ocean, comes word that Norovirus might not be as bad in England and Wales this winter as last. The UK Press Association reports: Cases of flu appear to be falling across England and Wales but experts have failed to rule out a future rise...

Will Montgomery County, MD Still Be Cooking Norovirus A Month From Now?

Posted on December 10, 2008
 Next month,  there may be as many as four to five million people going to the Inaugural of the 44th President of the United States.   Many of those millions will pass through or stay in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is immediately adjacent to the District of Columbia, the federal city...

Michigan Reports Another Norovirus Outbreak

Posted on December 04, 2008
With the one-time titans of Detroit in Washington D.C. to beg for money to continue , the nation's highest unemployment rate, and state and local taxes going up, you might think Michigan has had enough already. But it Michigan might also be looking at a mean winter of norovirus as there is another possible outbreak underway, this one near Lansing...

Norovirus Confirmed At Michigan's Hope College

Posted on November 18, 2008
The Ottawa County Health Department has confirmed the recent illness at Hope College was caused by a norovirus. Officials say there were 518 reported cases among students, faculty and staff since November 6th. The outbreak has since subsided with no new cases...

Norovirus Begins Having Its Way With UW-Madison

Posted on November 12, 2008
Sellery Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison appears to be ground zero for a norovirus outbreak at UW. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: "As many as 45 students at UW-Madison are sick with the norovirus. Many of the students live in the Sellery dormitory...

Holland, Michigan Campus Hopes Norovirus Too Shall Pass

Posted on November 10, 2008
A reader tipped us off over the weekend to the growing Norovirus outbreak at Hope College in Eastern Michigan.   By this morning, Kym Reinstadler at The Grand Rapids Press was reporting more than 400 students and staff at Hope College were suffering from the virus, which the Brits so lovingly refer to as "the vomit disease...

University of Arizona Suffers Through Norovirus Outbreak

Posted on November 04, 2008
The University of Arizona is the latest campus to go through a norovirus outbreak.  Last Saturday, Melissa Vito, vice president for student affairs and Dr. Harry M. McDermott, executive director for campus health & wellness, sent an email to everyone on campus: "We have received reports from University Medical Center that they have seen 15-20 University of Arizona students in their emergency room since last night suffering from symptoms that are consistent with a highly contagious gastrointestinal virus...

Norovirus Season Kicks Off At Virginia Public School

Posted on October 20, 2008
An elementary school in Colonial Heights, VA is open again after an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness forced officials to shut it down. About 150 students at Tussing Elementary School reported norovirus symptoms of stomach pains, nausea and vomiting last week...

The score for this weekend is Georgetown

Posted on October 06, 2008
The score for this weekend is Georgetown 192 to USC 130.  Too bad is wasn't one hell of a football game.  It was instead the count from the norovirus outbreaks being experienced on the two well known campuses on opposite sides of the country...

Georgetown And USC Are Fighting Norovirus Outbreaks

Posted on October 06, 2008
The score for this weekend is Georgetown 192 to USC 130.  Too bad is wasn't one hell of a football game.  It was instead the count from the norovirus outbreaks being experienced on the two well known campuses on opposite sides of the country...

Brits Get Ready For Another Round of Norovirus

Posted on September 30, 2008
Brits call it "the vomiting bug" and they are getting ready for its return, reports the UK's Daily Star.   Last winter’s epidemic saw an estimated 200,000 people a week struck down by the norovirus.   Now, between  doing its  best to keep the soft porn  business  alive,  the  Daily Star is doing its best to  prepare  folks  for  still more norovirus...

EPA Funds Norovirus Research At PNW National Lab

Posted on September 05, 2008
We often find ourselves running from one Norovirus outbreak to another on this blog.   There have been so many in the past year that it has left us little time to look at other Norovirus-related news. That's why we are especially happy to pass along information about some research going on in the Pacific Northwest that holds the promise of providing solutions for water-borne Norovirus...

Rhode Island, New York, & Minnesota All Reporting Norovirus

Posted on August 07, 2008
Food prepared at the East Greenwich Gourmet between July 30th and Aug. 1st should be tossed because it might be contaminated with Norovirus. Rhode Island public health officials discovered the problem when every other guest at a weekend event serving East Greenwich Gourmet foods got sick...

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