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Norovirus is a highly contagious gastrointestinal virus that is spread by direct contact with contaminated persons or objects, according to the University Health Services Web site. Some of the symptoms include vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and minor fever...
...peak of the norovirus outbreak at Emerson late last month, about 10 to 13 students per day went to the medical center for symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, said Andrew Tiedemann, Emerson’s vice president for communications and marketing, in an interview with The Globe...
Norovirus infects the small intestines, causing stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting...
...thrown together with bin liners, sticks and mud. Sanitation is minimal. Sewage facilities, hugely inadequate in the monsoon season, run alongside the housing. An earlier March 2009 MSF survey found that 40% of those who died in this unregistered camp in the first part of that year died from diarrhea. The government, however, has forbidden further development of the camps' infrastructure, so as not to attract any people more to the improvised settlement. "There is just one toilet between every 10 families," says Ziaul Haque, 40, who acts as a kind of camp administrator...
Another reason that Wakefield's spurious conclusions had so much staying power was that his study focused on gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autism. Many autistic children have chronic constipation, diarrhea, stomach pain and feeding issues--problems that remain poorly understood. Says autism advocate and blogger Katie Wright, a Wakefield loyalist: "He was the first doctor to take this concern seriously and research why so many autistic children develop severe GI disease...