WKRP in Cincinnati station manager Arthur Carlson once asked Andy and Jennifer to pose for a fundraising calendar, or something.Arthur: This year’s theme? Surf City USA.Jennifer: In Cincinnati, Ohio?Similarly, I never thought of Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a beacon for raw oysters. But, the local health unit reports that three unassociated groups of people who ate oysters at The Boathouse Rotisserie and Raw Bar (located at 1011 Riverside Dr

Last year I had a pretty crappy birthday – literally. I spent a few days on the toilet, and a few hours in the hospital, after contracting what was likely Norovirus. Today santacruz.com reports that several students at University California Santa Cruz (UCSC) are suffering from the same symptoms

I've always loved the UK term for norovirus: winter vomiting virus. It's so perfect and descriptive. Norovirus is great, but it doesn't have the same ring to it.  Seeing that it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere, parts of Canada and the US are burried under snow and ice, it's about time for the increase of norovirus stories we seem to have every year

The U.K. Food Standards Agency is so tragically hip they’ve gone viral.Except they call it ‘viral,’ encasing the word in what speakers would call “air quotes” or what  Jon Stewart of the Daily Show recently called “dick fingers.” I call it bad writing.The Agency has launched a new 'viral' marketing campaign, which raises awareness to the dangers of eating week-old turkey and gives tips to protect people in the UK from festive food poisoning

A text message proved effective in alerting thousands of students about last month's norovirus outbreak at Hope College.Hope College officials informed the Health Department they had a database that contained all of the students email and text messaging addresses. 3600 students were notified at once

I don’t know what I have (right, exactly as shown), but can sympathize with the people quoted below. University of Wisconsin freshman Ibrahim Balkhy contracted norovirus Sunday morning, saying,“There was lots of puking and diarrhea — it was hell. All I have eaten are saltines.”Between 20 and 30 residents of Sellery 6A, one of UW’s largest residence halls, have been fighting the virus since Thursday

Ottawa County Health Department officials closed Hope College on Friday after a four-day Norovirous outbreak that has left more than 400 staff and students sick.“Earlier Sunday, the college said the number of reported cases of the flu-like illness causing vomiting and diarrhea for 24 to 48 hours climbed to 180, but many students felt those numbers self-reported to the health department are low