Health workers are sounding alarms about a widespread outbreak of norovirus, a gastrointestinal illness that federal disease experts say kills about 800 people annually nationwide…..
Highly contagious, the illness is often referred to as a stomach flu, but it is not caused by influenza. It is passed through person-to-person contact as well as by eating food or drinking liquid contaminated with the virus, health experts say.

Gastrointestinal infections are killing more and more people in the United States and have become a particular threat to the elderly, according to new data released last week.

Norovirus is the leading cause of infection outbreaks in hospitals throughout the country, a new study reveals.