Leave bleach disinfectant on the affected area for at least 5 minutes. Clean the entire area again with soap and hot water.

(THE CONVERSATION) In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as stomach flu, norovirus infections cause watery diarrhea, low-grade ...

Norovirus—a highly contagious virus known for causing gastrointestinal distress—is making headlines this winter due to a ...

Over the last few months, the UK Health Security Agency has issued warnings after a surge in cases of the highly contagious ...

One study looked at a spate of norovirus outbreaks at nursing homes in New England during the winter of 2006–07, and found that locations where staff made regular use of hand sanitizers were at much ...

“Norovirus is a much more environmentally stable and hearty virus because it lacks an envelope,” says Infectious Disease Expert Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for ...

Norovirus: It comes on quickly, you can be contagious for weeks and hand sanitizer doesn't kill it. As norovirus plagues many families in Florida, with the state seeing the second-largest number ...

A common stomach bug is surging, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.In the week of Dec. 5, there were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported, up from 69 the ...

Alcohol-based hand sanitisers won’t kill norovirus due to the structure of the virus iteself, according to Prof Hunter. “Alcohol-based sanitisers work by dissolving the lipid envelope that ...

BOSTON - Massachusetts is seeing an increase in reported norovirus cases this season, according to Department of Public Health data. The number of cases recorded in November and December by the ...