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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedNorovirus risk lasts up to 10 days.
Australian Doctor, January, 2007
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By Helen Carter
GASTROENTERITIS guidelines should emphasise that patients with norovirus commonly remain infectious for at least a week after recovery, an infectious diseases expert says.
Professor Lindsay Grayson, professor of infectious diseases at Austin Health in Victoria, was commenting after hospital microbiology findings following a large outbreak in Melbourne confirmed previous research.
The laboratory found most patients excreted virus for 7-10 days.
"There was a large community outbreak of norovirus in 2006 affecting hundreds throughout Melbourne," ...
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