The Food Standards Agency released a helpful video explaining the truth about norovirus, and providing tips on how to avoid it during flu season.
READ MORE:Brits have been warned to brace themselves for an alarming upsurge in potentially lethal norovirus as the festive period approaches.
According to figures released by the UK Health Security Agency , the total number of reports this year was also more than double that of five years ago . Some 416 lab confirmed reports were logged in England over the previous fortnight. This is up from 216 for the same two weeks in 2019This is because the figures are based on positive laboratory reports and NHS hospitals reporting suspected and confirmed norovirus outbreaks.But norovirus can pile pressures on hospitals because infected patients need to be isolated in single rooms or wards need to be closed to new patients to contain the spread.
'If you are unwell, avoid visiting people in hospitals and care homes to prevent passing on the infection in these settings. The strain, which now accounts for 87 per cent of cases, has been nicknamed 'Kawasaki' as it was first detected in the Japanese city in 2014. A 69-year-old women described suffering 'the most aggressive diarrhoea and sickness' after babysitting her granddaughter. Another talked about her 29-year-old son 'being completely flattened' by the virus.'It came out of nowhere,' says the former IT consultant from Reading. 'I couldn't move more than few yards from the toilet before having to run back again.
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