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Norovirus Hits The Olympics, Staffers Quarantined
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| Feb 13 2018 - 8:56pm
| Armen Hareyan
Posted on 02/13/2018 7:10:04 PM PST by Armen Hareyan
Alarmingly, norovirus has become an uninvited guest at the Olympics.
Five additional cases of norovirus have been reported at the Pyeongchang Olympics. This brings the total of confirmed cases of norovirus to 199 since the beginning of the February. However, authorities say 154 of those affected have recovered and been released from quarantine.
Earlier in the Olympics, about 1,200 security workers were sequestered over the fear of norovirus spreading, forcing the military to...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: flu; norovirus; olympics
It's like everything that could go wrong with this Olympics went wrong. But who knows?
To: Armen Hareyan
Just won a gold on the men’s pipe.
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posted on
02/13/2018 7:11:01 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Armen Hareyan
i think norovirus too hard to stop, i don’t blame the event for it. People can wash their hands to stop some of it
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posted on
02/13/2018 7:11:27 PM PST
by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: Mount Athos
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posted on
02/13/2018 7:12:45 PM PST
by
Armen Hareyan
(drug shortages, healthcare)
To: Armen Hareyan
Yep...and latest Fake News (tm) attributes the noroVIRUS outbreak to bacterial contamination.
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posted on
02/13/2018 7:15:55 PM PST
by
1_Inch_Group
(Country Before Party)
To: Mount Athos
I had the Norovirus last November. Thought o was on my way out. Not fun.
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posted on
02/13/2018 7:26:03 PM PST
by
SWAMP-C1PHER
(HOMO, OECONOMIA, ET CIVITAS.)
To: Armen Hareyan
By the way, how’s Lindsey Vonn doing for this Olympics?
Just wondering.
To: Armen Hareyan
This was a beautiful win in several ways by a 17-year-old American woman. You all should see this amazing halfpipe snowboard run, including two 1080s, one after another, after she already had the gold metal in the bag with previous runs.
Chloe Kim's full gold medal run 98.25https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0X5CQOOwlM
Way to go, Chloe! Amazing!
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posted on
02/13/2018 7:52:15 PM PST
by
familyop
(President Trump said that we're all important, so let's do something!)
To: Armen Hareyan
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posted on
02/13/2018 8:02:07 PM PST
by
familyop
(President Trump said that we're all important, so let's do something!)
To: familyop
Nice to see the patriotism displayed instead of overpaid thugs .
To: Armen Hareyan
It could have been shigella.
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posted on
02/14/2018 3:53:54 AM PST
by
glock rocks
(... so much win!)
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