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California - Norovirus 2010-11

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Virus sickens hundreds of students at Pt Loma Nazarene

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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CBS 8) - A nasty virus has hit Point Loma Nazarene's campus, sickening hundreds of students just before final exams.

Since last weekend, more than 150 students who live on campus, plus another 50 or so commuter students, have come down with a bad case of intestinal illness, known as Norovirus.

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http://www.760kfmb.com/Global/story.asp?S=13655286
 
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Source: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Norovirus-Hits-2-Local-Schools--111719014.html

Virus Hits 2 Local Schools
By MARI PAYTON
Updated 8:01 AM PST, Sat, Dec 11, 2010
| NBC San Diego

A virus, believed to be the Norovirus usually found on cruise ships, is spreading through at least two San Diego schools...
 
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Bug Levels 100 Students at Point Loma Nazarene

By Gail Powell | Published Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010

One hundred or so students at Point Loma Nazarene University have recently come down with the norovirus &mdash otherwise known as the "cruise ship disease." Several students reported cases of gastrointestinal upset over the first weekend of December.

School officials were notified when reports of the first illnesses broke and the number of ill students quickly increased. Symptoms of the virus included severe vomiting, chronic diarrhea and abdominal pain. School officials denied that the source of the norovirus was related in any way to the Point Loma Nazarene cafeteria services or any kind of food-borne illness.

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http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/dec/11/bug-levels-100-students-point-loma-nazarene/
 
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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=ContentArea>County of San Diago

Norovirus Infection: Prevention and Control



</TD><TD vAlign=top align=right><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=110><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=5 align=middle></TD></TR><TR><TD style="HEIGHT: 5px" colSpan=5></TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle></TD><TD align=middle></TD><TD align=middle></TD><TD align=middle></TD><TD align=middle></TD></TR><TR><TD style="HEIGHT: 10px" colSpan=5></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=ContentArea colSpan=2 align=left><NEWS_TOPIC_DESCRIPTION>Norovirus is a highly contagious virus that typically causes vomiting and/or diarrhea. It can be spread when an infected food worker contaminates a food item during food preparation or serving. It can also be spread directly from person-to-person. During the winter months, illnesses related to norovirus tend to increase and cause outbreaks associated with group gatherings, especially those involving food service such as group holiday events.

If a norovirus outbreak is suspected at your facility, review Article 3 of the California Retail Food Code (CalCode) regarding Employee Health and Hygiene and promptly take the following actions:
  • Immediately exclude and/or restrict any food employee with vomiting and/or diarrhea from working with food, food utensils, and food equipment until they are symptom free for at least 48 hours.
  • Report to the Department of Environmental Health if two or more people from separate households (from your staff or patrons) experience acute gastrointestinal illness within a 24-48 hour period. Prompt reporting of suspect outbreaks can help stop the spread of norovirus and protect the health of those working and eating at your facility.
  • Promptly disinfect food contact surfaces, restrooms, break rooms, common areas and frequently touched surfaces with a disinfectant effective against norovirus.
    For additional information about cleaning and disinfection against norovirus, refer to the norovirus guidance document.
Please immediately report suspected outbreaks to the County of San Diego Department of Environmental Health (DEH) at 619-338-2356 or to the Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) at 619-515-6620. These Departments are staffed by knowledgeable environmental health specialists, epidemiologists, and public health nurses who are trained to help you respond to an outbreak by recommending effective infection control measures.

http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/deh/press/norovirus.html


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Norovirus Likely The Cause of Science Camp Outbreak

Marin County health official says stool samples are needed to confirm what caused stomach ailments at Walker Creek Ranch in West Marin.
By Brent Ainsworth and Elizabeth Shemaria
February 6, 2011

The community may know for sure early this week why students and teachers at Walker Creek Science Camp in Marin County got sick late last week.

In the meantime, it is believed the outbreak was caused by norovirus, the same ailment that often sparks nausea and diarrhea in close quarters such as on cruise ships and atnsenior care facilities.
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More than 250 people were at Walker Creek Ranch, a residential science camp in West Marin, when the stomach illness made about 60 people sick at the camp starting late Tuesday night.

Full text:
http://danville.patch.com/articles/...s-likely-the-cause-of-science-camp-outbreak-2
 
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Tests Show Norovirus Likely Spread Among Campers at Walker Creek

The Marin County Health Department will continue to investigate the cause of the sudden outbreak at the science camp last week through lab tests.

By Elizabeth Shemaria | Email the author | February 7, 2011

Marin County Health officials have confirmed norovirus was present at the Walker Creek Ranch when about 60 people got sick at science camp last week.

The health department released a letter today about lab tests of stool samples, which showed some people who got sick at the ranch had norovirus in their systems.

The letter sent to parents at Tassajara Hills Elementary in Danville, San Ramon Elementary in Novato and Redwood Day School in Oakland, said the investigation "indicates that the illness likely spread directly between children, rather than through contaminated food or water."

The letter went on to say "the first person who became sick was likely already infected and incubating the illness when they arrived at science camp last week."

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http://danville.patch.com/articles/tests-show-norovirus-likely-spread-among-campers-at-walker-creek
 
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Facts about Norovirus

Published on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:08 AM PDT
Marsha Smith
Kern Valley Sun

The recent illness that plagued so many locals has been determined by the Kern County Health Department to be the norovirus. The norovirus is not food poisoning. Food poisoning is caused by food-borne bacteria that is injested, spoilage, e-coli, etc.
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The health department is urging all food establishments to take extreme precautions to insure none of their employees are ill, have been recently ill and are following all precautions with handling food and food preparation areas.

It is the establishment?s responsibility to make customers? health their number one priority.

Full text:
http://www.kvsun.com/articles/2011/06/29/news/doc4e00ee48b6d6b426513711.txt
 
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Norovirus suspected in illnesses at SF camp

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SONORA, Calif.?Tuolumne County officials suspect norovirus was to blame for a spike in illnesses at a camp in the county run by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department.

Five people reported symptoms of the virus at Camp Mather last week. That's up from June, when just one or two new cases were logged a week.

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http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18468053
 
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Norovirus Outbreak Closes Popular Campground near Yosemite

Andria Borba FOX40 News
9:53 p.m. PDT, July 13, 2011

The city of Berkeley-owned camp was shut down for a 48-hour dousing with bleach after 75 of 250 campers came down with the Norovirus.
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Not far from Tuolumne Family, Camp Mather was also hit by the Norovirus, though less severely.

Tuolumne public health officials believe that one of the campers brought it with them to the camp and began sharing just a little too much.

Full text:
http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines...ground-near-yosemite-20110713,0,6745821.story
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Modesto Retirement Home Cautious After Virus Outbreak


Lab Samples Being Tested Now


POSTED: 12:33 pm PDT August 8, 2011

MODESTO, Calif. -- Public health officials believe an outbreak that sickened 17 people was due to the norovirus.

A spokeswoman for Dale Commons Assisted Living Facility said the facility has asked all residents to stay inside their apartments as a precaution.​

 
California - Nearly 130 students from two Orange Unified elementary schools sickened from field trip

California - Nearly 130 students from two Orange Unified elementary schools sickened from field trip

Published: Oct. 14, 2011 Updated: 5:56 p.m.

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Nearly 130 sixth-grade students from two Orange Unified elementary schools are ailing after contracting a virus from an unknown source during a field trip to Big Bear Mountain this week.<!--googleoff: all-->
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Officials said initially about three dozen students from Crescent and Olive schools contracted Norovirus, which causes acute gastroenteritis, commonly known as the stomach flu, prompting them to abort the trip on Wednesday ? just two days after 230 students arrived at Camp Cedar Crest in Running Springs.<!--googleoff: all-->

Symptoms of the virus include diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain.<!--googleoff: all-->
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"The virus was very contagious," said Pam Johnson, administrator for the program. "It quickly spread, so we decided to end the field trip and send everyone home."<!--googleoff: all-->
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The number of cases grew to 128 over the last three days, officials said.
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"The Health Care Agency is working diligently with the affected schools in Orange Unified School District, Olive Elementary and Crescent Elementary, to inform parents of the situation," she said. "It is important that parents keep their children home for 48 hours from the last episode of symptoms. Symptoms appear to be resolving in 12-48 hours from onset."<!--googleoff: all-->
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Johnson said this was the first such outbreak in the more than 20 years she has been involved with the program, which works with about 16,700 students annually.<!--googleoff: all-->

Full text:
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Norovirus outbreak prompts quarantine of Marin nursing home

<!--subtitle--><!--byline-->By Richard Halstead
Marin Independent Journal

<!--date-->Posted: 11/22/2011 10:21:17 AM PST
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Marin County public health officials have quarantined the county's largest nursing home, Country Villa Novato Healthcare Center in Novato, due to an outbreak of norovirus.

Several cases of norovirus, a gastrointestinal illness, also were reported at another Marin County nursing home on Friday.

County Villa's managers have called family and friends of residents and told them not to visit, and residents have been instructed to remain in their rooms. Since the outbreak began on Nov. 6, 80 residents and staff members have become ill. The center at 1565 Hill Road has 181 certified beds and a similar number of employees, although some work part-time, said Darron Treude, Country Villa's administrator.

Linda Ferguson, the county's communicable disease controller, said two residents at Country Villa who became sick were hospitalized. They have since recovered, Ferguson said. She declined to identify the Marin nursing home where the other norovirus outbreak has occurred.

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http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19391083
 
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Wash your hands: Norovirus outbreak sickens 50 in San Jose

<!--subtitle--><!--byline-->By Mike Rosenberg
mrosenberg@mercurynews.com
Posted: 11/30/2011 06:36:03 PM PST
<!--secondary date-->Updated: 11/30/2011 09:04:19 PM PST

More than 50 people at a South San Jose retirement community are recovering from a norovirus outbreak, prompting health officials to remind people in closed quarters to be extra careful to avoid contracting the nasty stomach flu.

The senior citizens living at The Atrium, across from Oakridge Mall, fell ill starting two weeks ago, and six of them ended up in the hospital but have since returned home, officials at the facility said.
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Out of an "abundance of caution," the facility temporarily ended common activities including meals in the dining room, and also sanitized common areas, asked visitors not to come and installed hand sanitizer dispensers, said Matt Fontana, a spokesman for Brookdale Senior Living, which runs The Atrium.

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http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_19443868
 
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Norovirus Outbreaks In Sacramento County

Stomach Flu Hits Seniors In Retirement Homes

POSTED: 5:46 pm PST December 26, 2011
UPDATED: 6:13 pm PST December 26, 2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Outbreaks of a nasty stomach virus know as Norovirus has been reported in Sacramento County.

KCRA 3 News found that at least two locations have been impacted, both residence homes for senior citizens.

One-third of the 100 residents at The Commons in Elk Grove have had the illness according to a manager who said testing confirmed it was Norovirus.
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Mercy McMahon Terrace, a senior assisted living center on 39th Street in Sacramento suspects the virus as well. Fifteen of its residents have become ill in the last week.

Read more: http://www.kcra.com/news/30077948/detail.html#ixzz1hqExMmfT

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Sacramento elder care facilities combating norovirus outbreaks


By Bill Lindelof The Sacramento Bee
Published: Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 - 12:00 am
Last Modified: Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 - 1:41 am

Excerpt:
"This is fairly common this time of year," said Dr. Laurie Werner, interim public health officer for Sacramento County. "It is not unusual to have this amount of norovirus activity in facilities."

She said the norovirus is now present in both skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. As of Tuesday, there have been six confirmed cases in three different facilities.

"However, we have a total of seven facilities that have been affected by the symptoms of norovirus," said Werner. "And a total 174 people, including residents and staff, have been affected by a viral illness that includes gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Norovirus causes 90 percent of the illnesses like that."

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/28/4148332/sacramento-elder-care-facilities.html#storylink=cpy
 
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