Waterborne gastroenteritis due to the Norwalk agent: Clinical and epidemiologic investigation

R. Wilson, L.J. Anderson, R.C. Holman, G.W. Gary and H.B. Greenberg

American Journal of Public Health, 1982, vol. 72, issue 1, 72-74

Abstract: An outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at a Pennsylvania summer camp in July 1978. Symptoms included abdominal pain (81 per cent), nausea (72 per cent), and vomiting (53 per cent); upper respiratory infections symptoms occurred in 35 per cent of the campers. Illness was associated with consumption of five or more glasses of water or water-containing beverages. Stool cultures from affected persons were negative for bacterial pathogens; however, a fourfold or greater rise to the Norwalk agent was demonstrated in serum samples of three of three ill persons tested and in none of eight controls (p

Date: 1982
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