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Name Change
First name they had for it was typhoid fever or cholera morbus, the it was change to its recent naame gastroenteritis -
Discovery Of Gastroenteritis
In the month of november in 1968, the "Norwalk Virus" was found in a elementary school. The virus was named after Norwalk, Ohio, where the virus was found. -
Analyzation of Norwalk Stool
Through the use of electron microscopy in 1972, stools were identifyed as infected with the "Norwalk Virus". -
One of first outbrakes of Norovirus!
First<a
126 people were eating at a restuarant when a woman with the virus vomited and the virus was send onto the table and air. 3 days later 54 workers got sick from cleaning up the mess. -
Approved Name
The International Comittee on Taxology of Viruses deemed "Norovirus" as the correct medical term for the "Norwalk Virus". -
Change and Geroge
Their findings indicated that IFN"s and ribivirin maybe be good therapeutic optins for norovirus. -
Vaccine on its way!
The Company Ligocyte announced that it was working on a vaccine and had started phase 1 trials. -
Particles
It takes as few as 10-100 particles to spread virus. -
Cases
As of 2011, in those less than five, there were about 1.7 billion cases resulting in 0.7 million deaths, -
Vaccine Put to a Hold.
Ligocyte got taken over by Takeda. Monovalent nasal vaccine had completed phase I/II trials, while bivalent intramuscular and nasal vaccines were at earlier stages of development. But this vaccine only works in early stages as it needs proteinto survive. But the virus has no RNA so it would not be useful after it evolved.
