The first of two Princess Cruise Lines ships sailing with scores of passengers suffering from the fast-spreading norovirus have returned to Fort Lauderdale, U.S. More than 150 passengers and crew members on board the Crown Princess were infected with the gastrointestinal illness during its seven-day cruise to the southern Caribbean, WFOR-TVreported.

http://bites.ksu.edu/sites/default/files/foodsafetyinfosheet-2-1-12-fr.pdf Le département de la santé de Caroline du Nord a signalé une éclosion à norovirus ces dernières semaines, permettant aux responsables de la santé de l’État d’émettre une alerte.

Carteret County is now reporting an outbreak of norovirus following a similar outbreak of the stomach bug in Pitt County last week. The Carteret County Health Department is working with an un-named long term care facility that reported more than twenty patients are ill and several have been hospitalized over the last few days with symptoms of norovirus.

Washington, DC -- Norovirus, a pathogen that often causes food poisoning and gastroenteritis, was responsible for 18.2 percent of all infection outbreaks and 65 percent of ward closures in U.S.