I'm a pediatric ER nurse, and I can tell you with absolute authority that schools are not safe from this. Last winter three public schools in my area were shut down because of norovirus outbreaks and had to be "sanitized". It was bad.
We had rooms with two, three, and sometimes four or five siblings (and sometimes their parents who became symptomatic) being treated for the bug. It was just bloody awful.
We had rooms with two, three, and sometimes four or five siblings (and sometimes their parents who became symptomatic) being treated for the bug. It was just bloody awful.
Two years ago right before Christmas, my nephew’s two kids came down with a norovirus as has had about half their classmates and most of the kids in their neighborhood, even those who went to other schools, but all the schools were having outbreaks. My nephew’s wife got it but he didn’t. My nieces’ kids at their school seemed to have avoided it. I’d been at my nephew’s house just before their kids got sick but as nearly a week had gone by with no symptoms, I thought I was in the clear.
But I went to my niece’s house for Christmas dinner. I had felt fine all day but after dinner started feeling queasy and flushed, a bit dizzy, out of sorts. I went home not long later and laid down on the couch, was watching a Christmas movie on TV when all of a sudden…well let’s say it wasn’t pretty, sudden violent projectile vomit all over me, my couch, my coffee table, the carpet, and nothing like being sick as a dog and living alone and having to try to clean up.. then came the…well I spent the next several hours in the bathroom, stuff now coming out of both ends.
I called my niece to let her know and for the next two days she and her kids were fine, then her husband got sick, then their four kids and a week later, it finally hit her. Nasty stuff and highly contagious.