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Is A New Strain of Norovirus On the Rise?
A new norovirus strain was detected last year in Australia and has reached the United States.
Although the flu is on everyone’s minds this season, the winter vomiting bug, or the norovirus, is making its rounds. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the norovirus causes about 70,000 hospitalizations and 800 deaths each year, mostly in young children and the elderly. Some of the virus' common symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pains. The CDC points out that the norovirus is often referred to as the stomach flu. In an e-mail, Medford Public Health Nurse Janet Leahy said she has not had any reported cases of norovirus in Medford this winter. A new norovirus strain, GII.4 Sydney, was detected last year in Australia. The strain hit the U.K. and sickened over a million people. It …
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6:18 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Big mistake that the ER room at this hospital at this local city didn't put a FLU PROTECTION MASK over an old eldery patient 's face during the flu weeks in the COLD NIGHTS in the last three weeks of January in a THIN pajamas with an OPEN on the back with a THIN blanket waiting in the COLD ER hallway for more than 6 or 7 hours! more ›