Norovirus, a gross stomach bug, appears to be hitting NYC. Good luck finding out where.

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Stomach illness is rising in New York City. The numbers of New Yorkers visiting hospital emergency rooms due to vomiting or diarrhea have risen about 50% from December to mid-February, according to the city's health department.

with an infected person’s fecal matter or vomit — or surfaces, food and water contaminated by those substances. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers don’t work against norovirus, Moe said, so handwashing with soap and water or disinfecting with bleach is necessary to stop its spread.

National monitoring systems in the U.S. and the U.K. have similarly pointed to a norovirus surge this winter, said Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, professor of health policy and management at CUNY. In 2016, Lee and his colleagues published a study estimating thatand over $60 billion in indirect societal costs around the world, every year.

Unlike some other foodborne diseases, the CDC doesn’t require doctors to report norovirus cases to local or federal health departments, said Kate Grusich, a spokesperson for the agency. The CDC’s norovirus data “reflects a sample reporting of outbreaks or clusters, or reports from selected laboratories,” she said.

 

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Ia this Chinese or not?

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The Gothamist has finally gone the way of all news outlets: the gross germ/bacteria/virus scare-stories. If you want to clean up NYC, advocate the enforcement of ‘Curb Your Dog’ ie. dog owners must have their dogs crap off the curb in the street. Ideally, dogs must crap at home.

dear...god one of the symptoms appears to be riverdancing 🤢

Fun fact: Hand sanitizers don't protect you from stomach viruses. Use soap.

I work in an Emergency Room in Brooklyn NY and it’s mostly Chest pain here recently a lot of young and Old with stroke and heart attack symptoms

My stomach has been a mess for months. Just cant shake it

I’m at the hospital with my son. Many kids in the e.r. Seemed to be there because of those symptoms

Those are symptoms of XBB variant.

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