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Clean produce to avoid food poisoning
It’s farmers’ market time, and all those fruits and vegetables seem so fresh. But they aren’t necessarily clean. Like supermarket produce, these local and even organic items need a wash before eating, according to the Academy of...
Tags: ConAgra Foods Incorporated, Salmonella Infection, Healthy Diet, Physical Conditions, E. coli Infection
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Health officials warn about outbreaks of norovirus
The “stomach flu” appears to be going around and state health officials are warning residents to take some precautions. The officials say these cases in recent weeks are not really the flu. They are cases of viral gastroenteritis, which gives...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, Vomiting, Abdominal Pain, Inflammation
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Norovirus most common source of hospital outbreaks
Here’s something to think about when you go to the hospital: norovirus, a pathogen responsible for food poisoning and gasteroenteritis, causes more than 18 percent of all infection outbreaks and 65 percent of ward closures in U.S. hospitals,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Staphylococcal Infection , Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Norovirus blamed for Concord Petoskey closure
PETOSKEY — Lab tests confirm that it was the norovirus that forced Concord Academy Petoskey to cancel classes on Friday. Concord Petoskey executive director David Hill told the News-Review that 60 students were out sick, or left early last...Tags: Vaccines, Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses, Lab Tests, Medical Procedures and Tests
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DHH recalls oysters and closes oyster harvesting area
WGNO NewsThe Department of Health and Hospitals quickly closed oyster harvesting area 23 (see graphic at left) Tuesday and also ordered a recall of oysters harvested from that area since April 6. Fourteen people have reported getting sick with the norovirus after...Tags: Oysters
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Contaminated reusable grocery bag causes gastric illness outbreak
A reusable grocery bag left in a hotel bathroom caused an outbreak of norovirus-induced diarrhea and nausea that struck nine of 13 members of a girls' soccer team in October, Oregon researchers reported Wednesday. The outbreak also affected many family...
Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gastroenteritis
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Go away with Chynna Phillips
The pop trio Wilson Phillips, comprised of singers Chynna Phillips and Carnie and Wendy Wilson, is back in the limelight, thanks to a new album, "Dedicated," and a reality series, "Wilson Phillips: Still Holding On," airing on the TV Guide Network. For...
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Brentwood (Islip, New York), Apple iPhone, John Phillips, Brian Wilson
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Huntsville Health & Rehab Also Dealing With Norovirus Outbreak
Huntsville Health & Rehabiliation is also dealing with an outbreak of norovirus.
The facility, on Chris Drive in south Huntsville, has 13 confirmed cases.
Norovirus is gastrointestinal illness that causes vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain.Tags: Abdominal Pain
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Muscle Shoals City Schools Closing Early Due To Norovirus Outbreak
WHNT News 19Muscle Shoals City Schools are closing at 1:30 p.m. They will remain closed tomorrow, too. The school system is dealing with an outbreak of Norovirus. At McBride Elementary, 286 students were absent on Thursday. The Superintendent said that appears to...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gastroenteritis
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Virus Keeps Nearly 300 Kids Home Sick From School
WHNT News 19 StaffA stomach virus has shut down the Muscle Shoals school system. School administrators stopped short of confirming the outbreak as "a norovirus" outbreak. They say the only way they could stop its spread, was to send the kids home. It's an unsettling...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Symptoms, Health and Safety at School, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Players Get Sick at Sports Arena
FOX 17 ProducerHealth officials in Wayne County are confirming it was the Norovirus that caused several people to become sick at the Taylor Sportsplex this past weekend. On Sunday, 28 people suddenly got sick, and began vomiting. The facility was immediately shut... -
Norovirus outbreak causes hundreds to miss school
TribLocal - Crystal Lake » NewsAn outbreak of the stomach flu at a far northwest suburban elementary and middle school has resulted in hundreds of student absences over the last …...
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