Norovirus Lawyer & Attorney : Marler Clark : Norovirus Blog

 Maine is one of the places we'd think you could go to escape from a norovirus outbreak.  Today, however, the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention announced the state was dealing with two outbreak concerns.   It warned about the national Salmonella outbreak AND it announced the state is in the middle of its own Norovirus outbreak.

The Center reports there are at least 14 cases of a stomach flu known as norovirus gastroenteritis that have been reported in six Maine counties, Most cases are associated with long-term care facilities.

The symptoms are typically rapid onset of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramping. Low-grade fever, chills, muscle aches and headache may also occur. The virus lasts one to two days for most people, and dehydration is a common complication, the center said.

For more about Maine, go here.

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 Norovirus is suspected of making a dozen people at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor sick.  Tests to confirm that suspicion are underway.   

 According to the Ann Arbor News,  a new business school cafeteria was cleaned and sanitized after seven food service workers and eight people who ate there reported becoming sick.

The cafeteria is in a new $145 million building at the Ross School of Business on the UM campus.

Nearby public restrooms and public spaces were also cleaned and sanitized before the new cafeteria was re-opened Tuesday.

Michigan has been hard-hit by norovirus this year.  Go here for our last report.

 Nearby public bathrooms and public spaces also were cleaned and sanitized. 

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Across the pond, also known as the North Atlantic Ocean, comes word that Norovirus might not be as bad in England and Wales this winter as last. The UK Press Association reports:

Cases of flu appear to be falling across England and Wales but experts have failed to rule out a future rise.

The latest data from the Royal College of GPs suggested cases have fallen from 68.5 per 100,000 people to 41.3 in just one week.

Cases of the common cold have also dropped from 355.3 per 100,000 people to 184.7.

A spokeswoman for the College said it was unlikely that flu would hit a nine-year high as previously predicted.

There is concern that people returning to work from the long holiday break could put others at risk.

Professor Steve Field, chairman of the College, warned that people returning to work and school could easily spread flu and the vomiting bug norovirus.

"GPs are coping and this is by no means a crisis," he said.

"But I think a lot of people are looking to us because they want a sick note.

"My prediction is that people are coming back to work or school and they are circulating influenza and transferring it to each other. We think cases of flu and norovirus will go up again."

For more from the UK, go here.

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