Typical household cleaners like hand sanitizer or wipes don't kill germs from norovirus. Here's what you can use instead.

The illness is tough to avoid once someone in your house gets sick, but medical experts have some tips to reduce your risk.

Hand sanitizer is simply not as effective against norovirus as it at killing other pathogens due to the virus's firm shell, Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt ...

Yale Health officials and experts urge students to continue preventative measures to curb the spread of norovirus.

Lehigh Valley’s health networks are seeing abnormally high cases of the stomach bug that’s taking a large number of people ...

Norovirus is the leading cause of vomiting, diarrhea and foodborne illness in the US, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Norovirus, often mislabeled as “stomach flu,” is a highly contagious virus causing vomiting and diarrhea. Unlike influenza, ...

When Medill sophomore Alex Chen began feeling fatigued last Tuesday, she initially blamed it on jet lag from returning to the ...

There were 91 suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreaks reported in the United States in the first week of December, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), exceeding the ...

The CDC advises thorough hand washing and sanitation over using hand sanitizers, which are ineffective against norovirus. Cases of Norovirus, also known as the 'stomach flu' or the 'stomach bug ...

But, does hand sanitizer kill norovirus? It’s a hardy virus, and it’s harder to kill than many others. As a result, some of the usual methods of preventing illness won’t work against it.