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According to NoroSTAT Data by the CDC, the total number of outbreaks reported during the 2024-2025 seasonal year is well above the range reported within the same period during the 2012-2020 and ...
From Aug. 1, 2023, to Feb. 12, 2024, there were 759 norovirus outbreaks reported by the 15 states participating in the CDC’s NoroSTAT surveillance program. During the same period the last ...
The 2024 norovirus outbreak hitting the Northeast, including nearly 70 cases now being investigated in an upstate New York college town, has health officials scrambling to contain the stomach bug ...
Cases of a wretched stomach bug are surging in parts of the United States this winter, according to government data.. The most recent numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported during the week of Dec. 5, up from 69 outbreaks the last week of November.
It’s also sometimes called stomach flu, viral gastroenteritis or the winter vomiting bug. The U.S. reports 19 million to 21 million cases a year. Humans are the only hosts of the virus.
A surge in norovirus cases might be explained by a new strain of the virus, which now reportedly makes up a majority of outbreaks across the U.S.. This winter’s dominant norovirus strain is a ...
A contagious stomach virus circulating in the Northeast has been on a steady rise since November — and it's made its way to New Jersey. While there are cases across the country of norovirus ...
Like the flu, it is a virus, but that's about where their similarities end, so calling it a "stomach flu" is a bit of a misnomer. It's also super contagious and really common.