Norovirus spreading in CT, experts say: 'For 3 days you're really in trouble:'
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... Norovirus is now spiking in Connecticut and across the country, and while that's nothing new for early winter, a new, more contagious variant is causing infectious disease specialists to take notice.

A norovirus variant called GII.17 was identified in 2022. Though it was slow to spread at first, it has become the dominant strain in the U.S.

"I wouldn't wish this norovirus on anyone really, because for those three days, you're really in trouble," said John Nwangwu, a professor of public health at Southern Connecticut State University.

Norovirus is a gastrointestinal disease, transmitted through surfaces. Symptoms that usually last about three days rarely result in death, but the vomiting and diarrhea the virus causes can dangerously dehydrate a patient.

The CDC does track norovirus in 14 states, though Connecticut is not one of them. National data shows norovirus spiking now in pockets around the country, with those spikes expected to increase as the winter wears on. ...

Stanford University runs a wastewater disease surveillance program, to which local wastewater treatment plants send samples for testing. One of those treatment centers is in Stamford, and according to that data, norovirus is spreading fast in Connecticut, with an "upward trend in the last 21 days." ...