Even more awesome than that. Just in time for Arisia and January in general (apparently, January is PEAK NOROVIRUS TIME), Carl Zimmer writes about Noro in NatGeo.
In 2010, scientists surveyed a hospital for noroviruses and found 21 different types sitting on a single countertop. It takes fewer than twenty noroviruses slipping into a person’s mouth to start a new infection.
I'm pretty sure I caught it last year from a packet of toilet paper. (I told you this, right? I was cleaning out that apartment belong to L's parents and the delivery/pick-up guy either puked or crapped or both in the bathroom... I told him he had noro, cleaned the bathroom with a substance the CDC endorses for killing noro, and then caught it a week after the guy had been there. The only thing I didn't clean/throw away was an opened pack of TP on the back of the toilet. Cleaned the bathroom a second time & fortunately, the nice little old people didn't get it.)
Yeah, norovirus is awesome in the classical definition of the word. I was completely freaked out about keeping M from contracting it last year, so recently having finished chemo. Blah.
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"I guess it comes as no surprise that as a sufferer of agoraphobia, I have never had this illness."
What an appalling, yet fascinating thing. Makes me want to wash my hands and wear a surgical mask.
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from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/232708.php
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Ugh.
In 2010, scientists surveyed a hospital for noroviruses and found 21 different types sitting on a single countertop. It takes fewer than twenty noroviruses slipping into a person’s mouth to start a new infection.
yuck!
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Oddly enough I have never had it anything like that since. Which is good.
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I'm pretty sure I caught it last year from a packet of toilet paper. (I told you this, right? I was cleaning out that apartment belong to L's parents and the delivery/pick-up guy either puked or crapped or both in the bathroom... I told him he had noro, cleaned the bathroom with a substance the CDC endorses for killing noro, and then caught it a week after the guy had been there. The only thing I didn't clean/throw away was an opened pack of TP on the back of the toilet. Cleaned the bathroom a second time & fortunately, the nice little old people didn't get it.)
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If I never get it ever again, I'll count myself lucky. What a wretched illness.
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