During the week of Dec. 5, the CDC reported 91 cases of norovirus, more commonly known as the stomach flu, which is over double the highest number recorded between 2021 and 2024.

Phoenix Reisen’s MS Artania is sailing through several ports in Norway after nearly one in six passengers have tested for ...

In recent months, several cruise ships have experienced significant outbreaks of the norovirus. This highly infectious and ...

CDC Reports Rise in Norovirus Cases. The CDC has reported 91 outbreaks during the week of December 5, up from an average of 65 during the same period from 2012 to 2020.

A CDC spokesperson said the agency is monitoring norovirus outbreaks through its CaliciNet laboratory database and pointed to a surge of GII.17 strains in Asia and Europe in 2014 that was followed ...

In fact, norovirus outbreaks in the U.S. in early January reached the highest level for this time of year since 2012, CDC data show. “This year, the number of reported norovirus outbreaks have ...

There were 10 gastrointestinal outbreaks in 2019, and 11 each in 2018 and 2017, according to CDC records. Norovirus was also the cause in many of those cases.

The CDC notes that norovirus can found in both vomit and feces "even before you start feeling sick." "The virus can also stay in your poop for 2 weeks or more after you feel better.

The CDC records an outbreak when at least three percent of passengers and crew show symptoms, its vessel sanitation program ...

So far this year, there have been 16 illness outbreaks reported on cruise ships in the CDC's jurisdiction, mostly from norovirus, compared with 18 outbreaks in all of 2024 and 14 in 2023, VSP ...

FoodReady used National Outbreak Reporting System data to understand foodborne illness outbreaks over the past two decades.