William Schaffner: Norovirus is an intestinal virus that can make you very, very sick. It is indelicately called winter vomiting disease, and it begins suddenly, often with an explosive vomit that ...

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

An outbreak of norovirus — the virulent, highly contagious stomach illness — has been reported at one of the shelters housing ...

The misery of the common stomach flu may be coming to an end. Pharmaceutical company Moderna has launched a large-scale Phase ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical ...

October to April is normally considered to be the wet season in California, yet this January, the region is experiencing some ...

This electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a cluster of norovirus virions ... the back of your hands, under your nails, anything that got ...

Norovirus is surging across the U.S., with case numbers higher now than they've been at the same time in more than a decade, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

"The risk is to the very young under age one and the elderly — they can get easily dehydrated. For this there is no real cure other than time." The problem with norovirus is just how contagious ...

Norovirus, often erroneously called the "stomach flu," sickens an estimated 21 million Americans and 685 million people worldwide every year, and though there is currently no preventive vaccine, a ...

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 ...

George Sandhu says the diseases are much more serious than a cold and people need to look out for the symptoms ...