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Over the past year and a half, and particularly over these past few months, you probably have seen news articles about a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A virus (HAV), primarily among homeless persons and/or...
Yes, you read that correctly. Dr. Mary Estes and her research group at Baylor College of Medicine have successfully cultured the human norovirus in intestinal cells. The article was just published today in Science...
Recently, PLOS released a massive collection of articles, blog posts, and materials related to norovirus. If you want the most complete and up-to-date picture of what noroviruses are doing around the world, click the...
Our second contest entry comes from Kirsten, who got to experience a scarier side of norovirus with her young child, then became sick herself, all at New Years! She and her husband earn the...
We are proud of all of our NoroCORE students, and here we highlight a recently published study performed by Clyde Manuel and Matthew Moore in the Jaykus lab here at NCSU, on the effects...
Norovirus season usually winds down this time of year, though there have been some notable norovirus outbreaks in the past couple of weeks. You may have heard of the two cruise ship outbreaks, on...
Part of why we like to post about norovirus outbreaks is to highlight some of the background work that goes on in an outbreak investigation. While it is unfortunate there is a norovirus outbreak...
It seems that noroviruses have been up to their old tricks, with presumed outbreaks in all of the usual places, just in the last few days. From causing problems for hospitals and clinics, to eldercare and veterans facilities having to...
Over a dozen hospitals across Wales, Scotland, and England have been popping up in the norovirus headlines this week, earning them a collective blog post on what medical facilities do to hold the sneaky...
Here is our second installment of the recent norovirus-related happenings around the world. About forty operating room and recovery staff at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, British Columbia were home recovering from gastrointestinal...
