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Everyone has the stomach flu

Posted on Jan 9th 2007 5:32PM by Jonathon Morgan

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss

Vomiting, diarrhea, stomach cramps and headaches. Welcome to 2007! Thanks to some particularly nasty noroviruses, the United States has seen nearly two to three times more cases of the stomach flu this year than in years past.

The stomach bug, and other infections caused by noroviruses, generally only last two or three days. But don't let that fool you: being sick sucks. According to Marc-Alain Widdowson, a norovirus expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "People (can) vomit 20 times a day." Gross.

Doctors have no explanations for the especially high number of cases this year.

While these infections can happen year-round, it's more prevalent in the winter months -- so, thankfully, there will be an end to the outbreak...eventually.

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Tags: epidemic, illness, outbreak, sick, stomach bug, stomach flu, StomachBug, StomachFlu

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Lisa Peterson 1-16-2007 @ 7:58PM

For anyone taking data, I HAD this! I am a Kindergarten teacher, and pride myself on NEVER getting sick. I cannot remember ever having anything like this in my life. It knocked me on my ass, and had me "doing the dance" from both ends simultaneously. My 65 y/o mother had it just days before me, and was so weak from vomiting and diarreah that she passed out, fell on her face, and blackened an eye. We are in Northern California (Redding). I had just been to Chicago, days before I was hit with norovirus.