AUSTRALIA: Mutant bug will keep on biting - (Sydney Morning Herald)
September 9, 2007 – 11:08 pmA virulent strain of gastroenteritis that has struck tens of thousands of people has two months left to run, threatening child-care centres, aged-care facilities and hospitals.
The story says that the combination of a new strain of norovirus and increased susceptibility due to this year’s severe influenza season has caused scores of outbreaks across New South Wales.
There were 63 outbreaks affecting 44 nursing homes and 11 hospitals last month, with some forced to close wards to new patients and visitors.
Molecular virologist Peter White, from the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science at the University of NSW predicted the virus, identified as norovirus 2006b, would continue until November, stating, “We are one month into a three-month epidemic. The outbreaks are right across Sydney and every hospital south of Brisbane has had at least one outbreak.”
Nearly all reported cases of gastroenteritis have been caused by norovirus 2006b, a mutant strain of the virus […]
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