Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Your blood type may influence your vulnerability to norovirus, the winter vomiting virus

  • Written by Patricia L. Foster, Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
Your blood type may influence your vulnerability to norovirus, the winter vomiting virusProjectile vomiting is common with norovirus.Elnur/Shutterstock.com

In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as stomach flu, norovirus infections cause watery diarrhea, low-grade fever and, most alarming of all, projectile vomiting, which is an extremely effective way of spreading...

Read more: Your blood type may influence your vulnerability to norovirus, the winter vomiting virus

More Articles ...

  1. Why we are hard-wired to worry, and what we can do to calm down
  2. 3D printing of body parts is coming fast – but regulations are not ready
  3. Matching Vietnamese brides with Chinese men, marriage brokers find good business – and sometimes love
  4. Rotting feral pig carcasses teach scientists what happens when tons of animals die all at once, as in Australia's bushfires
  5. Trump, like Obama, tests the limits of presidential war powers
  6. The US-Iran conflict and the consequences of international law-breaking
  7. School closures can hit rural communities hard
  8. What Trump's tweet threatening Iran's cultural sites could mean for Shiite Muslims
  9. Tweets about cannabis' health benefits are full of mistruths
  10. How countries in conflict, like Iran and the US, still talk to each other
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more