MISSOURI: Norovirus strikes in Lake County - (The Missoulian)
April 11, 2008 – 8:37 pmPOLSON–Three Lake County residents, one an infant, have tested positive for norovirus, and 15 more have exhibited symptoms, the county’s Health Department announced Thursday.
Aside from the infant, the other confirmed and possible cases are currently confined to two long-term residential care facilities, one in Ronan and the other in Polson.
But the virus spreads quickly and easily, Lake County communicable disease nurse Brigid O’Connor said, and she wants to avoid what happened in Billings in 2006, when thousands of cases were reported.
To that end, she encouraged people to frequently and vigorously wash their hands with soap and warm water, the best defense against contracting or spreading the illness.
It’s especially important for people employed in schools, day care, food service and the health fields, O’Connor said.
MORE:
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/fsnews.cfm?newsid=25338
Related posts:
Norovirus (?) strikes Socorro, NEW MEXICO - (barfblog)
‘Quake lake’ canal completed
Race against time to drain ‘quake lake’
CHICAGO: Restaurant report cards - (Lake County News-Sun)
ONTARIO: Study suggests drinking water may be source of winter norovirus outbreaks - (Canadian Press)
ILLINOIS: Restaurant report cards - (Lake County News-Sun)
TENNESSEE: No source yet determined for hepatitis A outbreak - (Knoxnews.com)
Maniac killer strikes again!
E. coli lawsuit filed against MISSOURI raw milk distributor - (Marler Blog)
Suspected norovirus sickens MICHIGAN students - (Chicago Tribune)
Suspected norovirus sickens MICHIGAN students - (Chicago Tribune)
MICHIGAN: Update: Cause of Hope College illness identified - (WZZM13.com)
OREGON: Inspector doubts El Sol connection to norovirus - (The Daily Barometer)
CALIFORNIA: Hotel responds to norovirus cases - (Inside Bay Area)
MARYLAND: Norovirus sickens 65 at medical meeting - (New York Times)
ILLINOIS: Restaurant report card - (The News-Sun)
OREGON: Norovirus outbreak responsible for P.F. Changs closure: More than 40 cases confirmed so far - (kptv.com)
MISSOURI: Health department looking for budget trims - (Springfield News-Leader)
TENNESSEE: Hepatitis A vaccinations needed for Cherokee Lake area - (Knox News)
CALIFORNIA: Chamber event at Hotel Sofitel leaves dozens ill - (The Daily Journal)
MINNESOTA: Reduce your risk of contracting Norovirus - (Huchinson Leader)
PENNSYLVANIA: Norovirus sickens people at wedding reception - (KDKA)
Thousands flee China ‘quake lake’ peril
WISCONSIN: Illness strikes 135 Outagamie County jail inmates - (Fox News)
China races to dynamite ‘quake lake’
CALIFORNIA: Norovirus confirmed after South Bay food poisoning incident - (NBC 11)
CALIFORNIA: Diners contract norovirus at hotel - (The Examiner)
Water rising too fast at China quake lake
OHIO: Dining halls inspected after Denison students get sick - (Newark Advocate)
WASHINGTON: Lake Stevens restaurant may be E. coli source - (SeattlePI.com)
AUSTRALIA: Record oyster crop - (Great Lakes Advocate)
BLOG: MINNESOTA: McDonald’s norovirus outbreak - (Pritzker and Ruohonen)
MICHIGAN: Norovirus closes Hope College until Wednesday - (NewsChannel 3)
TOPEKA, KS: Poop in Lake Shawnee - (barfblog)
Fecal viral concentration and diarrhea in norovirus gastroenteritis - (Emerging Infectious Diseases, Center for Disease Control)
CALIFORNIA: Norovirus outbreak leaves Amador County residents feeling queasy - (Ledger Dispatch)
N. TEXAS cryptosporidium cases increase - (nbc5i.com)
MISSOURI: ACCHU provides safety checks for areas food service establishments - (The Mexico Ledger)
Norovirus proposal nets top research funding - (USDA News Release)
WASHINGTON: Staph infection hits New South, 212 sick with norovirus - (Georgetown Voice)
Health officials investigating norovirus outbreak in Redwood Falls - (WKBT/Associated Press)
MISSOURI: St. Charles County restaurant ratings - (STL Today)
WASHINGTON: Staph infection hits New South, 212 sick with norovirus, USC sick with Grab n Go too - (Georgetown Voice)
NEW YORK: Stomach bug at Union College - (Times Union)
MISSOURI: Infections plague St. Chas. Daycares - (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
MISSOURI: St. Charles County restaurant inspections - (STLtoday)
MISSOURI: St. Charles county restaurant inspections - (St. Louis Today)
MISSOURI: St. Charles County restaurant inspections - (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
MISSOURI: Red wine protects against food-borne germs - (Jamaica Gleaner)
MICHIGAN: Norovirus outbreak associated with Ill food-service workers — Michigan, January–February 2006 - (MMWR Weekly)
TURKEY: Health Ministry investigates norovirus infection in Aksaray - (Today’s Zaman)
PENNSYLVANIA: Norovirus continues to affect students - (The Villanovan)
NEW ZEALAND: Norovirus found in shellfish - (TVNZ)
MICHIGAN: School experiences likely norovirus outbreak - (Lansing State Journal)
NEW YORK: Another year, another bout of stomach flu - (New York Times)
TEXAS prison quarantined, hundreds sick with Norovirus: Hundreds ill Wynne Unit - (khou.com)
FLORIDA: Cruise industry efforts pay off with sharp decline in stomach virus - (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
SPAIN: Foodborne outbreak of gastroenteritis due to Norovirus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus - (Cambridge University Press)
MISSOURI: Walker’s Food Products Company recalls Four Bean Salad because of possible health risk - (Walker’s Food Products Company)
BARFBLOG: Is there a link between norovirus at Georgetown and USC? - (barfblog)
MICHIGAN: Tests inconclusive for flu-like illness that closed Hope College - (The Grand Rapids Press)
NEBRASKA: Lancaster County keeps eye on hepatitis spike - (KPTM FOX 42)
WISCONSIN: Symptoms of norovirus spread to sorority houses on campus - (Daily Cardinal)
NEW ZEALAND: Kerikeri shellfish maybe infected - (Newstalk ZB)
CALIFORNIA: Virus could have sickened 21 at Crowne Plaza - (Palo Alto Online)
COLORADO: YMCA camp re-opens after Norovirus outbreak - (9News (NBC))
ILLINOIS: At least 18 catch shigellosis infection in Tazewell County: County only had one case in 2007, none in 2006 - (Pantagraph.com)
UTAH: Water park working to make its pools safer - (KSL)
MICHIGAN: Norovirus nerves: Students remain cautious as classes resume at Hope College - (Holland Sentinel)
CALIFORNIA: Resort restaurant reopens after outbreak of illness: Health officials suspect gastrointestinal illness spread when someone failed to wash their hands - (Contra Costa Times)
Deadly blast strikes NW Pakistan
Turkey strikes at Kurdish rebels
German railroad strikes spread
Kenyan opposition plans strikes
Powerful earthquake strikes Japan
MISSOURI: Locally owned ethnic restaurants more likely to snag health-code violations - (Columbia Missourian)
CALIFORNIA: USC virus outbreak infection grows to 200 - (LAist)
SAN FRANSISCO: Moscone center norovirus outbreak - (KCBS)
Blast strikes Yemen housing for foreigners
E. Coli in the tri-states update - (7 News)
ONTARIO: E. Coli outbreak tests North Bay’s mettle - (HealthZone.ca)
CANADA: More food inspection tests needed: Smiths Snacks GM - (The Western Star)
ILLINOIS: County board to weigh hike in health-inspection fees - (State Journal-Register)
Close contact in wrestling keeps germ fighters busy - (Billings Gazette)
VIRGINIA tech students, others, catch norovirus - (NBC Washington)
CALIFORNIA: Norovirus likely culprit in mass sickening - (KSBW 8)
Norovirus may have sickened campers at WISCONSIN event - (The Associated Press)
ABSTRACT: Determination of Norovirus contamination in oysters from two commercial harvesting areas over an extended period, using semiquantitative real-time reverse transcription PCR - (Journal of Food Protection, Volume 71, Number 7, July 2008 , pp. 1427-1433(7))
IOWA: Source of E. coli cases still unfound - (The Hawk Eye)
Quake lake aftershock causes landslides
New International Food Safety Network Infosheet — Wash your hands and stop norovirus - (International Food Safety Network)
HONG KONG: 2 Paralympic Village residents have norovirus - (news.gov.hk)
CALIFORNIA: As we see It: Spreading the word about food-borne illness - (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Lake in Chile empties from melting glacier
Soldiers blow up houses in quake lake
The reduction of murine norovirus 1, B. fragilis HSP40 infecting phage B40-8 and E. coli after a mild thermal pasteurization process of raspberry purée - (Food Microbiology Volume 25, Issue 7)
IOWA: Test shows E. coli case unrelated - (The Hawk Eye)
COLORADO: Norovirus cause of DU illnesses - (The Denver Post)
BARFBLOG: Roy Costa, guest barfblogger: The “Great Escapes Resort” can’t escape scrutiny after viral outbreak - (barfblog)
6.1 quake strikes off western Canada