If you get sick with norovirus it won’t be pleasant, but will usually pass in a couple of days.
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Comparisons with flu are unhelpful – these diseases need to be treated differently.
Because low-income settlements are unplanned, crowded and without sanitation, there are many viral infections that cause health problems.
Emphasizing foreign origins of a disease can have racist connotations and implications for how people understand their own risk of disease.
The coronavirus, like many infectious diseases, can live and spread on inanimate objects in the world around us. An epidemiologist explains how and gives some advice on how to minimize the risk.
Norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, is highly infectious among people in confined places – like cruise ships. But not everyone is equally vulnerable. Your blood type may determine if you get sick.
A cruise can be a fantastic holiday. But it certainly won’t be if you end up confined to the bathroom with gastro.
Mounting reports of norovirus symptoms point to a summertime outbreak, which could mean big trouble for an already struggling NHS.
In the wake of a norovirus outbreak traced to raw oysters from British Columbia, our expert explains how to eat this culinary delicacy safely.
There’s a norovirus outbreak at the Winter Olympics. Here’s what that means – and why it’s so hard to stop.
A new study finds a link between cloudy tap water and outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness, such as norovirus.
We have an awful lot in common with the viruses that infect us.
The norovirus costs the NHS in excess of £100 million – the equivalent of employing over 3,000 specialist nurses.
We’ve all experienced the abdominal cramps and the urge to get to a toilet – quickly! When the stomach and intestinal tract become inflamed, our bodies respond with the sudden onset of diarrhoea, associated…
A new strain of norovirus has been discovered which scientists warn could cause a severe epidemic of gastroentiritis this…
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