Norovirus sickens 1 million kids each year, highlighting need for vaccine

We hear about norovirus most often these days when there is an outbreak on a cruise ship. However, the infection is much more prevalent than that. Norovirus is responsible for 1 million doctor’s visits by children each year, costing $273 million to the United States and highlighting the need for a vaccine According to Bloomberg, a recent report published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 1 in 278 children in the United States will be hospitalized for norovirus, commonly dubbed the stomach flu. In total, 1 in 14 children will visit an emergency room for the infection, and 1 in 6 children will visit a doctor – all before the age of five. As TIME magazine reports, the data was obtained from 141,000 children younger than the age of five who were treated for acute gastroentitis between October 2008 and September 2010. Infants were more likely to be hospitalized...