United States: It’s winter virus season, and many illnesses are actually spreading across the United States. One of the most common is norovirus, also called the “stomach bug” or “stomach flu.”
As of December, the number of norovirus cases is double what it was in previous years.
“This year has proved to be a busy year for norovirus to occur — many cases are being reported,” said Dr. Michael Sweat, director, Centre for Global Health Medical University which is mainly in South Carolina. Such conditions are mainly noticed between November and April the rest of the year there are few reports of the virus he said.
Norovirus is known to cause some fairly terrible cutting symptoms, however, there are measures you can take to prevent getting it and procedures that you can follow if you do contract this virus.
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As reported by the huffpost.com, if you get norovirus expect to get sick very fast, but it will not be very long before are back on your feet again.
Typically, you will develop symptoms after 12 to 48 hours since contracting the virus said Dr. Matthew Lokant, an expert in infectious diseases at West Virginia University School of Medicine.
“One of the primary symptoms characteristics of any climate crisis is a sudden acceleration. ‘All of a sudden,’ you get a really queasy feeling,” Sweat added.
While this virus starts to manifest very soon, it courses through people quite rapidly as well.
Sweat informed that most people do not become ill for one to three days, while Dr. Daniel R. Kuritzkes, chief of the division of the infectious diseases which is at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said that norovirus cleared on its own and is not deadly for most of the population.
The symptoms which define the presence of noroviruses include vomiting and diarrhoea.
In fact, one can easily distinguish norovirus from other illnesses that prevail during the warm months. That’s a digestive disorder characterized by vomiting and diarrhea, according to Kuritzkes.
He also pointed out that those with norovirus “should not producers’ blood in their diarrhea as is the case with some of the bacterial causes of diarrhea.”
Further, you may suffer from other conditions that are related with vomiting and diarrhoea which include stomachache, nausea and belly aching.