Steve Quayle News Alerts

December 18, 2002

Calgary: Norovirus Victims Approach 1000 Nearly 1000 Calgarians have fallen ill to [norovirus] infection since October 2002, prompting the Calgary Health Region to issue a warning on Fri 13 Dec 2002 to those who plan on visiting friends and family in care facilities over the holidays. Since October 2002, 30 locations in the city have had staff, students, and patients affected by the gastrointestinal virus, up drastically from the same period last year, when only one outbreak affecting seven people was reported....

USA (Alaska): Outbreak of Gastroenteritis in Ketchikan - Interim Report On 9 Dec 2002, the Section of Epidemiology was informed of numerous cases of gastroenteritis in Ketchikan. Reports involved sudden onset of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea among persons affiliated with one nursing home, 2 elementary schools, and 2 day-care facilities...

200 Reported Ill On Cruise Ship Based in New Orleans More than 200 guests on the cruise ship Carnival Conquest reported symptoms of a gastrointestinal illness on a voyage that ended Sun 15 Dec 2002, Carnival Cruise Lines said. The company said it was treating the illness as [norovirus related], the same type of illness that has affected hundreds of passengers on other cruise ships in recent months. Carnival said it was working with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine the cause...

Finland: Diarrhea and Vomiting Illness Affects Hospitals Across the Country A severe diarrhoea and vomiting epidemic is [affecting] both patients and staff in hospitals and nursing homes in different locations in Finland. Earlier in the autumn [viral gastroenteritis] troubled a central hospital in Lappeenranta in Southeastern Finland, and now it has reached epidemic proportions at least in Joensuu and Jyvskyl in East and Central Finland...

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