Preventing Norovirus Outbreaks: Food Service Has a Key Role: CDC Vital Signs: 06/03/2014

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• Journal Article:
  CDC Vital signs
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  Norovirus often gets attention for outbreaks on cruise ships, but those account for only about 1% of all reported norovirus outbreaks. Norovirus is very contagious, and outbreaks can occur anywhere people gather or food is served. People with norovirus usually vomit and have diarrhea. Some may need to be hospitalized and can even die. Infected people can spread norovirus to others through close contact or by contaminating food and surfaces. Food service workers who have norovirus can contaminate food and make many people sick. In norovirus outbreaks for which investigators reported the source of contamination, 70% are caused by infected food workers.
• Subjects:
  Caliciviridae Infections/prevention & Control Disease Outbreaks/prevention & Control Foodborne Diseases/prevention & Control Food Contamination/prevention & Control Food Services/standards
• Series:
  Vital Signs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Popular Works
• Pages in Document:
  4 numbered pages
• Citation:
  CDC Vital signs ; 2014 June
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e12dbe6c03f05e1c872ddd48d31243a55ea67563f38198feeadbcdeb4c10b53ebb87aaa36dfcb3dfd93da10a4609a5ce12c9dc31b1c43f650300f7ecc98789b5
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23302/cdc_23302_DS1.pdf
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