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How else is gastroenteritis known?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Gastroenteritis often is referred to as the stomach flu even though the flu is a respiratory illness caused by an influenza virus. Other common names for viral gastroenteritis include: food poisoning, winter-vomiting disease, non-bacterial gastroenteritis

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