Norovirus Angela (Angy) Jenkins SCI 162 / Principles of Health and Wellness June 4‚ 2013 Barb Loguda The Norovirus “Norovirus is a very contagious virus. You can get norovirus from an infected person‚ contaminated food or water‚ or by touching contaminated surfaces. The virus causes your stomach or intestines or both to get inflamed (acute gastroenteritis). This leads you to have stomach pain‚ nausea‚ and diarrhea and
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BIO 140 – Norovirus Whenever I started my job working as a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home I had become familiar with the Norovirus. Little did I know I had been infected with it before but I was given a different name from what I was sick from. The Norovirus also named NoV is the leading cause of illness from contaminated food or water in the U.S. If you are not familiar with the name Norovirus you may of heard of many of its other names it referred as. These
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United States and live in the state of Vermont. To me‚ Vermont is a place in the United States that is not talked about very much. The state looks very friendly‚ calm‚ and quite beautiful. There are many activities that you can do year-round as well. I feel as if the state of Vermont is a great place to relocate. Usually whenever I am asked where I want to live later in life‚ I usually reply with somewhere peaceful‚ like Vermont. It seems to me that Vermont is not talked about a lot because there
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The US With More Than 250 Passengers Sick With Norovirus More than 250 passengers of Balmoral‚ a British cruise ship have gotten sick with the gastrointestinal condition norovirus. The British cruise ship has 919 mainly British passengers‚ who are on a five-week “Old England to New England” cruise from UK to the U.S. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that from 919 passengers‚ there were 252 have fallen ill with norovirus. They also found out that eight of the 520 crew
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Food Borne Illness In my findings of the virus known as Norovirus‚ it is also referred to as Gastroenteritis. The virus is caused by influenza. The Norovirus affects thousands of people every year according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The Norovirus is a member of a category known as Calcivirus family. The virus is made up of four groups. The Norovirus is the most important virus to human pathogens. According to scientist the Calcivirus is difficult to study due to their
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Norovirus is highly contagious‚ short term illness which causes gastroenteritis’s and are transmitted directly from person to person direct or indirect contact with infected person (Nazarko‚ L.‚ 2013‚ World Health Organization (WHO)‚ 2009). Gastroenteritis is associated when the norovirus enters the human it rapidly replicates and spreads all over which causes severe infection (Friesema .M et al..‚ 2009). Recent studies suggest that genotype GII.4.It takes around 12 to 48 hours to identify the infection
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Week 7 Food borne illness: Norovirus 1. What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? For example‚ the name of the bacteria‚ virus‚ or parasite. a. Norovirus‚ more commonly known as food poisoning or gastroenteritis‚ is caused by several distinct groups of viruses in the Caliciviridae family of viruses. The family name is derived from the Latin word chilice – callx- which means cup-like. These viruses are single-stranded small round structured viruses
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1. For the Princess Cruises ship issue‚ where the norovirus found? After several days’ investigation‚ the norovirus was found in seafood‚ which provided on-board‚ was contaminated and carried norovirus. 2. What are the symptoms of norovirus? Norovirus will cause viral gastroenteritis. The symptoms usually are nausea‚ vomiting‚ watery diarrhea and abdominal pain. If people infected by norovirus‚ these symptoms will show up in 12-48 hours. 3. Why did they sever contaminated food? I don’t have the
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medically valid uses‚ while others are recreational drugs of abuse. All are physically addictive‚ and it has become evident that many people have begun to abuse them. Pharmaceutical drugs have taken over the minds of many Vermonters. I do believe that Vermont is facing a severe epidemic when it comes to opiate addiction. According to Governor Peter Shumlin‚ “We ’re spending roughly $134 million of taxpayer dollars a year to incarcerate drug- and alcohol-addicted people.” The amount of money spent on addicted
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II 11 November 2015 Norovirus A Norovirus is a virus that is highly contagious among humans. By sequencing the RNA (a nucleic acid present in all living cells)‚ scientists have discovered that there are many different types of Norovirus. Originally‚ strains were named based on the city in which they were first identified. Therefore‚ one common strain used to be called Norwalk virus. Based on genetic typing‚ we now know that there are at least 25 different strains of norovirus that affect humans.The
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