{"id":8387,"date":"2025-01-02T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8387"},"modified":"2025-01-02T11:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T17:11:29","slug":"norovirus-covid-and-rsv-are-surging-this-winter-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/02\/norovirus-covid-and-rsv-are-surging-this-winter-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Norovirus, Covid And RSV Are Surging This Winter. Here\u2019s What To Know."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stephenpastis\/2024\/12\/31\/norovirus-covid-and-rsv-are-surging-this-winter-heres-what-to-know\/\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control shows spikes in norovirus, Covid-19 and RSV across the U.S.\u2014a resurgence that\u2019s potentially unlike the usual annual winter spread of these illnesses, which have been less active in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norovirus is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/files\/food\/published\/Most-Common-Foodborne-Illnesses-%28PDF%29.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contagious virus<\/a>&nbsp;that typically presents as projectile vomiting and diarrhea after ingesting contaminated food or drink, interacting with contaminated surfaces or interacting with a sick individual, and it is the most common foodborne virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reported norovirus cases spiked in late November and grew by nearly 31% percent increase to 91 reported outbreaks nationally in the first week of December\u2014the highest level of the year and a near<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/norovirus\/php\/reporting\/norostat-data-table.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;three-year high<\/a>; from 2021 to 2024, the largest number of reported outbreaks at the start of December was 41 cases, although just 14 states report norovirus outbreaks to the CDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stephenpastis\/2024\/12\/31\/norovirus-covid-and-rsv-are-surging-this-winter-heres-what-to-know\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control shows spikes in norovirus, Covid-19 and RSV across the U.S.\u2014a resurgence that\u2019s potentially unlike the usual annual winter spread of these illnesses, which have been less active in recent months. Norovirus is a&nbsp;contagious virus&nbsp;that typically presents as projectile vomiting and diarrhea after ingesting contaminated food or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8388,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions\/8388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}