Four wards have now been completely closed at a Dorset hospital after confirmed cases of the Norovirus.
Need to fear from Norovirus ?
Norovirus disease is normally not severe, although folk with it may not concur at the moment. They may look really, really sick and vomit many times a day.
Some folk with norovirus transmission are incapable to drink sufficient liquids to supplant the liquids they lost because of vomiting and diarrhea. Dehydration is the almost popular complication of the disease, particularly among the inexperienced and older and immunedeficient persons. The dehydration may need medical care.
Symptoms of norovirus disease usually last 24 to 60 hours — up to three days. And then the victims get better and recover.
People who have had norovirus have no known long-term health effects related to their sickness. There is too no evidence to indicate that a contaminated individual can get a long-term carrier of norovirus.
Noroviruses (genus Norovirus, family Caliciviridae) are a group of related, single-stranded RNA, nonenveloped viruses that cause acute gastroenteritis in humans. Norovirus was recently approved as the official genus name for the group of viruses provisionally described as “Norwalk-like viruses†(NLV).
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