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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 10:55 PM Apr 2016

Norovirus outbreak infects thousands in northern Spain

Source: Agence France-Presse

More than 4,000 people fell ill with norovirus in northeastern Spain after drinking bottled spring water contaminated with human faecal matter, local health officials said on Monday.

The health department of the regional government of Catalonia said 4,146 people were treated for symptoms including nausea, vomiting and fever in Barcelona and Tarragona after drinking the contaminated water from office water-coolers. Six needed hospital treatment.

“It is the first time in the world that norovirus has been found in bottled water,” said Albert Bosch, a microbiology professor at the University of Barcelona, who was in charge of the analysis of the contaminated water.

“The way this usually happens with tap water is because somehow faecal water got mixed up with drinking water. But in this case we are talking of bottled water, there is a process and we don’t know at what point it happened,” he added.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/26/norovirus-outbreak-infects-thousands-in-northern-spain

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Norovirus outbreak infects thousands in northern Spain (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2016 OP
Wonder if we are close to a vaccine for noro. Laffy Kat Apr 2016 #1
It's been being worked on for years. EllieBC Apr 2016 #6
And it won't be the last AuntPatsy Apr 2016 #2
Yikes zentrum Apr 2016 #3
Bottle it and call it Trump Water. kairos12 Apr 2016 #4
Do What a Lot of the Locals Do Wolf Frankula Apr 2016 #5

EllieBC

(2,961 posts)
6. It's been being worked on for years.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 02:59 AM
Apr 2016

So many issues hold it up like not really understanding immunity to it and something about the cell structure of the virus itself. That and they can't seem to successfully create it in a lab.

I for one would be thrilled to see a vax for it. I would give my left tit to never ever have that awful virus again. It started with my then 3 year old and turned my home into a 5 day vomitorium as we all fell to it. Now I keep gravol and Gatorade on hand as a constant precaution.

On edit: if you've never had noro, you are so so lucky. And some people think different blood types may be immune to it. There's some research about that too.

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