The virus spreads easily and quickly through contaminated food and water. Cases often spike each year as people gather with family and friends during the holidays.

Rates of the vomiting bug, which can also cause diarrhoea, are up 80 per cent on the same time last year, figures show. Some ...

An average of 41% of patients ready to leave hospital last week were discharged each day, according to data from NHS England.

Dr. Raquel Zemtsov, a physician with UPMC Family Medicine, joined us to talk more about norovirus, its symptoms and how to avoid exposure to it.

And CDC data collected prior to January from states including Ohio shows that norovirus has already caused nearly 500 ...

Vomiting bug norovirus is up 80% compared to same period last year according to NHS hospital data while other winter bugs are ...

Illinois had at least 103 outbreaks of the stomach bug norovirus in November and December – a dramatic increase from previous years, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Flu rates have dropped since their peak but remain almost 2.5 times higher than last year, with 3,833 patients in hospital ...

England’s hospitals are treating hundreds of patients with winter vomiting bug norovirus after cases jumped by a fifth ...

A surge in respiratory illness is typical for this time of year, and the simultaneous outbreak of highly contagious norovirus is piling on to the public health risk. Commonly known as stomach flu, ...

Norovirus cases in hospitals are 80 per cent higher than the same period last year, adding to hospital pressure across the ...

Ohio Department of Health director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff cautioned Ohioans to continue to take these illnesses seriously.