It would be handy to be able to be get a shot to protect against this nasty gastro bug. For the most vulnerable, it can be ...

Norovirus is the cause of 50%–70% of gastroenteritis outbreaks and at least 5 global gastroenteritis epidemics since 1996. 1 A biennial pattern of alternating quiescent and epidemic outbreak activity ...

There are nearly 50 different subtypes, or genotypes, of norovirus, with different ones circulating in different years. For the last decade or so, one version of the virus, called GII.4, has been ...

Researchers discovered that the most dominant strain of human norovirus uses an “unexpected mechanism” to enter our cells during the first stage of infection, with specific proteins triggering ...

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 newer ...

The majority were the GII.7 strain. In years when there is a new strain of the virus, there can be 50 percent more norovirus illness. Cases continued to tick up months into this year.

A new, mutated strain of the norovirus is ripping through British Columbia's Lower Mainland, and severely taxing the health care system's ability to keep up. Airplay's house doctor Brian Goldman ...

But the key phrase there is the same strain. Being infected with one strain of norovirus will offer little protection against infection from another strain, says William Schaffner, M.D., an infectious ...

Norovirus cases on cruise ships are well on track to exceed last year's number just four months into 2024 - and experts say a dominant new strain of the vomiting bug might be to blame ...

As part of its monitoring of norovirus, the Health Protection Agency carries out genetic testing for different strains of the virus. The HPA says that tests carried out when cases started to rise last ...