Virginia - Norovirus cases 2013

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Norovirus or ?stomach flu? outbreaks confirmed in the area
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Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 10:16 pm, Wed Jan 30, 2013.

BY TAMMIE SMITH Richmond Times-Dispatch

Virginia health officials have confirmed outbreaks of norovirus caused by the new Sydney strain that is spreading rapidly across the United States.
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Since Oct. 1, the Virginia Department of Health has received reports of 62 norovirus outbreaks, mostly in long-term care facilities, day-care centers and schools, said Dr. David Trump, state epidemiologist.

Of the outbreaks, 27 have been laboratory confirmed as caused by norovirus, and of those, six have been the new Sydney strain named for Sydney, Australia, where it was first identified in March 2012.

?It?s in every single region of the state,? Trump said. ?It?s not being limited to one area.

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Re: Virginia - Norovirus cases 2013

Arlington schoolchildren suffering from norovirus en masse

By Jeff Goldberg

May 17, 2013 - 06:00 pm

A nasty strain of norovirus is making its way through an Arlington elementary school that kept a large number of students home on Friday.

In a letter sent home by Nottingham Elementary School officials, administrators told parents that the likely cause of the outbreak is norovirus. The highly-contagious stomach illness typically leads to serious nause and vomiting.
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Arlington County Schools officials will not confirm how many children have been sickened, but a parent says that 80 children were absent from school Thursday. Most of them are 4th and 5th graders who spent their school days in trailers.

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