The "stomach flu" is most prevalent in winter in temperate climates and in summer in the tropics. For that reason, it used to also be called "winter flu". It is also sometimes called the Norwalk flu or Norwalk agent (a very large outbreak occurred in Norwalk, hence the name).
It is actually not really the flu. What is most often called stomach flu is viral gastroenteritis. That just means an irritation of the stomach and intestines by a virus. It is very contagious and is commonly spread when people are gathered together in close proximity through person to person contact or fecal contamination of foods or water. Sometimes food borne illness/food poisoning that is due to bacteria is also mistakenly called the stomach flu.
The viruses most commonly associated with viral gastroenteritis are Norovirus and Rotavirus.
The winter season usually brings an infestation of the stomach flu and many other sicknesses.
How long is the 24 stomach flu contagious for
You may be contagious a few days after you have had the stomach flu. Normally the stomach flu runs its course in one to two days.
I believe so. The stomach flu isn't the flu at all and is a digestive system ailment. The flu is influenza, a respiratory virus.
Your stomach will not nessasaraly hurt if you have the flu. it depends on what flu you have
When your stomach hurts so much.
That sounds like the classic symptoms of influenza. In the Northern Hemisphere, the flu season is upon us. It is time now, in the Fall of 2011, to ready for the flu season with an annual flu vaccination.
what date is the officially end to the flu season 2014
It means to get Stomach Flu or Gastric Flu
"Stomach flu", or the "GI flu".
no
Absolutely not.