Shutterstock Norovirus: the "winter vomiting bug" that's contagious. The colder months are traditionally the harbinger of winter illnesses. Like the flu, for example.

Parts of the US are feeling the pangs of stomach flu. The Midwest is experiencing the greatest impact this norovirus season with a testing positivity rate of 19.48% as of Feb. 4 — already ...

Shutterstock. Annually, norovirus is behind some 20 million cases of vomiting and diarrhea, 109,000 hospitalizations and 900 deaths, the CDC has found — most of which occur between November and ...

Norovirus. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com. Although the viral etiology was presumed early, the discovery was hampered due to the inability to recover and propagate the agent in vitro ...

Six ships reported a norovirus outbreak in December, with a seventh ship reporting an outbreak of an unknown cause. Photo Credit: NAPA/Shutterstock In parallel to the nationwide rise in norovirus ...

The takeaways are: (1) There is no such thing as stomach/24-hour flu; (2) the average American has a 1 in 6 chance of getting food poisoning each year, which is mistakenly called "stomach flu"; and (3 ...