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After battling the Covid-19 pandemic for almost two years, a new virus outbreak has been reported in the UK, which is spreading like wildfire. Referred to as the vomiting bug, Norovirus is highly...

https://www.barfblog.com/2021/07/the-ghost-of-heston-norovirus-outbreak-in-england/

While it is, perhaps, premature to look at the COVID-19 pandemic through the rearview mirror only, there is, according to Max Teplitski of The Packer, enough data to extract some useful lessons.�...

https://www.barfblog.com/2021/07/food-safety-lessons-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Canine norovirus (CNV) is a diarrhea-causing pathogen in canines. In this study, 268 canine diarrheic fecal samples were collected from 13 pet hospitals across three provinces in China between Ma...

https://www.barfblog.com/2021/04/yes-dogs-too-canine-norovirus/

We report a norovirus GIV outbreak in the United States, 15 years after the last reported outbreak. During May 2016 in Wisconsin, 53 persons, including 4 food handlers, reported being ill. The ou...

https://www.barfblog.com/2021/03/53-sick-rare-norovirus-giv-foodborne-outbreak-wisconsin-usa/

Prairie City Monroe School District (that’s in Iowa, in the U.S.) officials said nearly 5 per cent of the body and staff were absent Friday due to illness. School officials said on Thursday, sc...

https://www.barfblog.com/2021/03/noro-spreads-almost-5-of-students-and-staff-sick-from-schoo/

Food World reports that several collective food poisoning infections possibly linked to the consumption of contaminated oysters have been reported since mid-February 2021 in several regions of Fr...

https://www.barfblog.com/2021/03/164-sick-collective-food-poisoning-in-france-linked-to-the-consumption-of-oysters-contaminated-by-norovirus/

The Yilan County Public Health Bureau said Aug. 12 that several customers and employees in the mass food poisoning case at Hotel Royal Chiaohsi (礁溪老爺酒店) had tested positive for norovi...

https://www.barfblog.com/2020/12/164-sickened-in-aug-norovirus-found-in-mass-food-poisoning-at-taiwans-chiaohsi-hotel/

To establish the agent responsible for a gastroenteritis outbreak in a hotel in Menorca (Spain) in September 2016. Methods The study included epidemiological and laboratory analysis. Environmen...

https://www.barfblog.com/2020/12/151-sickened-norovirus-outbreak-causing-gastroenteritis-in-a-hotel-in-menorca-spain/

Human norovirus (HuNoV) is one of the leading causes of acute gastroenteritis globally. HuNoV outbreaks have been recently reported during air travels. Contaminated surfaces are known as a critic...

https://www.barfblog.com/2020/07/norovirus-on-planes/

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. will, according to Edvard Pettersson of Bloomberg, pay a $25 million criminal fine to resolve allegations by federal prosecutors that its food sickened more than 1,100...

https://www.barfblog.com/2020/04/chipotle-another-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-25-million-criminal-fine-for-food-poisoning/