Norovirus is a highly contagious virus that causes nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. It can spread through contaminated food or water, person-to-person contact, and touching surfaces with virus particles. While the symptoms are unpleasant, most people recover within a couple days. Though rare, norovirus causes over 200,000 deaths globally each year, primarily in developing countries and vulnerable groups like the elderly. Proper handwashing and disinfecting surfaces can help prevent transmission of the virus.

1. Norovirus
Norwalk Variants

2. How Do You Get It?
• Fecally contaminated food and water
• By person-to-person contact
• Via aerosolization of the virus
• Subsequent contamination of surfaces.

3. OH NO!!
• nausea
• forceful vomiting
• watery diarrhea
• abdominal pain
• rare cases loss of taste
• General lethargy
• weakness
• muscle aches
• headache
• low-grade fever may occur

4. Is it Serious?
• Although having norovirus can be unpleasant, it's not usually dangerous
• Most people make a full recovery within a couple of days.
• The virus affects around 267 million people and causes over 200,000
deaths each year
• These deaths are usually in less developed countries and in the very
young, elderly and immuno-suppressed

5. Prevention
• Hand washing with soap and water
• Surfaces where Norovirus particles may be
present can be sanitized with a solution of
1.5% to 7.5% of household bleach in water

6. Let Me Know!
• Have you ever had it?
• IF you haven’t have you had a family member
contract it
• How was the experience?