Monitoring Telehealth Vomiting Calls As a Potential Public Health Early Warning System for Seasonal Norovirus Activity in Ontario, Canada

Overview

Journal Epidemiol Infect

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Public Health

Date 2019 Mar 15

PMID 30869009

Citations 4

Authors

S L Hughes

R A Morbey

A J Elliot

S A McEwen

A L Greer

I Young

A Papadopoulos

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Abstract

Norovirus is a predominant cause of infectious gastroenteritis in countries worldwide [1-5]. It accounts for approximately 50% of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) and >90% of viral gastroenteritis outbreaks [6, 7]. The incubation period ranges between 10 and 48 h and illness duration is generally 1-3 days with self-limiting symptoms; however, this duration is often longer (e.g. 4-6 days) in vulnerable populations such as hospital patients or young children [2, 8]. Symptomatic infection of norovirus presents as acute vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal cramps and nausea, with severe vomiting and diarrhoea (non-bloody) being most common [2, 5, 9].

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