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Norovirus GII.17 accounted for < 10% of outbreaks in the US 2022-23 season, but rose to 75% during the 2024-25 season, passing the number of GII.4 outbreaks.

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Norovirus GII.17 has rapidly overtaken GII.4 as the leading cause of norovirus outbreaks in the United States between 2022 and 2025. This unprecedented shift signals an urgent need for continued ...

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While the outbreaks occur throughout the year, they are the most common from November to April as people head indoors and it’s easier to spread norovirus through infected particles.

The agency is monitoring norovirus outbreaks in its CaliciNet laboratory database, and said that in 2014, there was a surge of GII.17 strains in Asia and Europe that did not change seasonality.

The British public has been told that the bug 'can be unpleasant' and starts to make you ill within days of infection ...

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