William Schaffner: The most important thing is good hand hygiene. Washing with soap and water works the best. Those hand ...

William Schaffner: Norovirus is an intestinal virus that can make you very, very sick. It is indelicately called winter ...

“People's phones are out when urinating and defecating, exposing the phones to bacteria,” says Dr. Suraj Saggar, chief of ...

Norovirus and its varying strains are nothing new, but health experts are seeing increased activity compared to other years.

"This 'quad-demic' is sort of this really tweetable term for our normal winter viruses: flu covid and RSV; and then a little bit of a wild card this year, we're seeing some higher numbers than usual ...

Those hand hygiene gels and wipes – the hand sanitizers – that people tend to use aren’t as effective against norovirus, so just wash frequently with good old soap and water. And then ...

Many common disinfectants (containing things like ammonia and alcohol), hand sanitizer, and even Clorox and Lysol wipes, often do not fully kill norovirus. You’re going to need the hard stuff ...

Hand sanitizer is simply not as effective against norovirus as it at killing other pathogens due to the virus's firm shell, Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt ...

In New York City alone, there were nearly 1,300 cases in December. That's almost triple the number during same time in 2023.