Sentences with phrase «said norovirus»
Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said norovirus is the most common cause of viral gastroenteritis (often called stomach flu), affecting people of all ages.
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The company also said it had been served with a subpoena in a federal criminal probe linked to norovirus cases in California last year.
Anything short of that — say, just a quick rinse — will leave things like norovirus and influenza virus on your hands.
MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Health officials in suburban New York say they've confirmed that the illness that shut down a Westchester County diner last week was the highly contagious norovirus.
«This raises important questions about whether human norovirus infects tuft cells and whether people who have chronic norovirus infections and continue to shed the virus long after infection do so because the virus remains hidden in tuft cells,» Wilen said.
If norovirus also targets tuft cells in humans, «maybe that's the cell type we need to be treating,» says study coauthor Craig Wilen, a physician scientist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
This makes the development of an effective vaccine to protect against infection, as well as antiviral therapy to combat already - existing infections, particularly challenging,» says Dr. Grant Hansman, a virologist who leads the CHS Research Group on Noroviruses at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and Heidelberg University.
«You certainly can't do a $ 100 million study for every candidate vaccine that appears safe and immunogenic,» says Mark Mulligan, a molecular virologist who heads the vaccine center at Emory University in Atlanta and does human challenges with norovirus and tuberculosis.
Steve Whitehead, a scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a co-author of the dengue paper, said that challenge trials have been used in the past for malaria, cholera, norovirus, flu and other diseases «for which there's really urgent, urgent need to move the field forward over time.»
What's more, the norovirus and other stomach - churning germs are highly contagious and can live on hard surfaces until unsuspecting gym - goers pick them up, Angarone says.
Manty Stanley, managing director at TEAL, says: «Viruses such as the flu, norovirus and the common cold occur more frequently in the colder months.