Posted February 1, 2012 ¬ 3:01 pm.Heather Monackey
The News & Observer reported this morning that norovirus is on the rise in North Carolina, including in Wake and Orange counties.
Highly contagious, this virus can infect someone who ingests only 10 particles of virus. That is smaller than the head of a pin. For example, it usually takes about 100,000 colonies of a bacteria [...]
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Posted February 25, 2010 ¬ 10:34 am.Robin Carver
Robin Carver, RN, serves as WakeMed’s director of infection control.
According to the North Carolina Division of Public Health (NCDPH), there has been a recent increase in gastrointestinal illness across the state due to norovirus. Highly contagious, this virus can infect someone who ingests only 10 particles of virus. That is smaller than the head of [...]
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