Vaccine developed to protect against norovirus or 'winter vomiting bug'

[xchrom]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/17/vaccine-norovirus-winter-vomiting-bug


People infected with norovirus (above) can remain infectious for more than three weeks. Photograph: CDC/Phanie/Rex Features

A vaccine against the highly infectious winter vomiting bug that strikes thousands of people in Britain each year is close to being tested in humans.

Doctors have approached government funders to begin human trials after laboratory tests showed the vaccine could prevent people from succumbing to the infection.

Researchers said the technical issues in formulating the vaccine appeared to be solved, and that regulators now had to assess the treatment's suitability for full-scale clinical trials.

The stomach bug, caused by seasonal norovirus, spreads rapidly between people and is difficult to kill off by cleaning. It has ruined countless holiday cruises, closed hundreds of hospital wards and torn through prisons.

[Ilsa]

1. I wonder if they can combine

it with the annual flu vax to minimize the number of injections.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Its not an injection

Its a nasal spray.

[Ilsa]

5. I wonder if it will trigger mild symptoms.

The article didn't say if the nasal spray could cause mild nausea or diarrhea.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Better use of tobacco too

I must confess.

I think there's a homeopathic remedy too which involves stuffing a tadpole up each nostril. Something like that - maybe its a newt.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Too late for us. It's ripping through our school. My kids have been in and out with it

for over a week, and now hubby and I are getting it.

[Odin2005]

6. I had that bug several years ago, nasty!

It left me out cold for a week with vomiting and the shits.