I live in Australia and as you probably know, it's summer here - the month where we tend to be less frightened as opposed to winter time. I've see SO much about noro on this forum in the past few months. Prior to being so active on this forum, I barely knew it existed, and I wish I still was that ignorant. However, I see all these threads about how the media is hyping it all up but also how so many people know of friends/family that got it etc. I'm soon going to be on a plane heading over to the US and I'm really scared about what seems like a pandemic. Is it just a media hype? Should I be scared? I'm so excited for my holiday. I love the states, but right now I'm pretty frightened considering I'm going to be at just about every busy tourist attraction known to man. *sigh*.