A vaccine against norovirus, the dreaded “winter vomiting bug”, could be closer than you think: early clinical trials have ...

A norovirus outbreak on a Princess Cruises ship last week caused 82 people to suffer vomiting and diarrhea on their nearly three-week-long journey from California to Florida, health officials said.

Norovirus is highly infectious and causing a lot of illness this winter. Several vaccine candidates are making their way through clinical trials.

Scientists have discovered a strategy to fight back against norovirus, a leading cause of gastroenteritis worldwide. Their new study identifies powerful antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range ...

The Phase 1 trial is an open label, dose ranging clinical study designed to evaluate Vaxart’s second-generation oral norovirus vaccine constructs head-to-head against its first-generation constructs.

Preliminary vaccine experiments typically require animal models, but researchers don’t have a good such model for norovirus. That’s because human noroviruses don’t easily infect animals ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institutes of Health, have discovered a ...

Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A Princess Cruises ship has been hit hard by a norovirus outbreak. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported the highly infectious form of ...

Infection control became a challenge among the children sheltering during the Los Angeles County fires this past January.

Prof Hunter warns that there is a slight risk to pets from human norovirus cases, and a risk to humans from infected pets. "The risk is not zero, but not great enough to be a significant concern ...

Dr Woodnutt added: "It’s worth mentioning that while it is very rare for dogs to show human norovirus, they do experience a range of stomach bugs that are specific to them. Additionally ...

However, this is relatively rare - similar to dogs and cats getting coronavirus during the pandemic, when very few pets were infected despite hundreds of thousands of human cases." Furthermore, if ...