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Leverett Allston Burr Senior Tutor Catherine R. Shapiro, who said both she and her young son Robert became infected with the Norwalk virus, sent an e-mail to the Leverett House e-mail list warning residents of the virus and requesting their cooperation in preventing its transmission...
University Health Services (UHS) and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) are working together to prevent a large scale outbreak of the Norwalk virus, which causes nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain, from reaching Harvard’s campus...
...scourge that's plaguing cruise lines--and causing thousands of Americans to rethink their holiday travel plans--didn't start this year, nor did it even start on a ship. It began, as far as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) can tell, in Norwalk, Ohio, in October 1968, when 116 elementary-school children and teachers suddenly became ill. The CDC investigated, and the culprit was discovered to be a small, spherical, previously unclassified virus that scientists named, appropriately enough, the Norwalk virus...
Flash forward 34 years, and Norwalk-like viruses (there's a whole family of them) are all over the news as one ocean liner after another limps into port with passengers complaining of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and cramping. The CDC, which gets called in whenever more than 2% of a vessel's passengers come down with the same disease, identified Norwalk as the infectious agent and oversaw thorough ship scrubbings--which, to the dismay of the owners of the cruise lines, haven't made the problem go away...
...Norwalk-like viruses, it turns out, are extremely common--perhaps second only to cold viruses--and they tend to break out whenever people congregate in close quarters for more than two or three days. Oceangoing pleasure ships provide excellent breeding grounds, but so do schools, hotels, camps, nursing homes and hospitals. "Whenever we look for this virus," says Dr. Marc Widdowson, a CDC epidemiologist, "we find it." Just last week 100 students (of 500) at the Varsity Acres Elementary School in Calgary, Alta., stayed home sick. School prank? Hardly. The Norwalk virus had struck again...