Norovirus

Approximately 20 staff members from an elementary school in Casselberry, Florida are believed to have contracted norovirus infections last week, a school official confirmed with Contagion.

A norovirus vaccine developed by Takeda is the first and only one to be tested in human trials.

Each year, norovirus infection is responsible for an estimated 684 million episodes of diarrhea and 212,000 deaths worldwide, and results in approximately $4.2 billion in healthcare costs and $60.3 billion in societal costs, a new report has highlighted.

Dorothy McCoy, PharmD, shares advice on when a patient with norovirus should go to the emergency room.

Dorothy McCoy, PharmD, provides advice for healthcare practitioners on counseling patients with norovirus.

Dorothy McCoy, PharmD, describes what healthcare professionals can do in the event of a norovirus outbreak.

Several universities across the country and three cruise lines experience severe norovirus outbreaks, numbers totaling in the thousands.

Dorothy McCoy, PharmD, Clinical Associate Professor at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University, explains why the norovirus spreads so efficiently.

In just about 24 hours, the number of students at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania experiencing an unidentified stomach illness has increased from 40 to 174.

Hoping their discovery will lead to novel treatments, University of Florida researchers have successfully manufactured the human norovirus in a cell culture dish.