Norovirus is a terrible gastrointestinal illness that is highly contagious and strikes mainly nursing homes.  Read this article from The Denver Post to learn about the symptoms and how best to control the spread of this nasty illness.

The highly contagious illness strikes mainly nursing homes, where communal living, social dining and hygiene all play a role in the virus’ spread.

There is no national tracking system for norovirus because requiring public health departments to file reports on the sickness would overburden them. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated the prevalence of the illness in 2006 after receiving numerous requests from state health departments.

The CDC found a 250 percent spike in reported outbreaks from 2005 to 2006.

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