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First name they had for it was typhoid fever or cholera morbus, the it was change to its recent naame gastroenteritis
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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.
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Through the use of electron microscopy in 1972, stools were identifyed as infected with the "Norwalk Virus".
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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. -
The International Comittee on Taxology of Viruses deemed "Norovirus" as the correct medical term for the "Norwalk Virus".
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Their findings indicated that IFN"s and ribivirin maybe be good therapeutic optins for norovirus.
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The Company Ligocyte announced that it was working on a vaccine and had started phase 1 trials.
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It takes as few as 10-100 particles to spread virus.
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As of 2011, in those less than five, there were about 1.7 billion cases resulting in 0.7 million deaths,
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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.
