WVV in the UK

[trix vix]

Has anyone heard any updates on the Novovirus sweeping the uk?


Do you know if it's died down or still "out there"? Need to know when i can start living again [img]smileys/smilies_06.gif[/img]

[thegooddr]

trix,


Going on press reports it is either dieing down or they have got bored with the story and aren't printing the stories anymore. I put a message in here last week (called Good News ?) which showed that the reports of Norovirus infection to the Health Protection Agency in UK has dropped significantlyover the first 5 weeks of this year (next set of figures released on March 8th). Might be time for us to put the head above the parapet again and face the world. Absolutley lovely day here in Galway today - sun has been shining since 7:30am and spring really has sprung.





Have a good day,


Iain

[chloe]

Maybe a little graphic [img]smileys/smilies_12.gif[/img]


We had it really bad here - being such a small island it circulates rapidly! My whole family got in varying degrees. I had a bit of d* but was mostly dizzy and headache-y - was soooooo glad I didn't v*. My poor mum got it the worstwith v* and d*. Think she got it worse being a primary school teacher and being surrounded by germy kids all day [img]smileys/smilies_11.gif[/img]My dad had it similar to me - and we still got it going on! Hope it finishes here soon.


I'm sorry that was a little o/t. I'm sure its leaving the UK - I've not seen any reports in the UK papers for a while. I'm sure its fine - just take the usual precautions if you wre unsure

[cloughie]

I was wondering the same thing. It has completely dissapeared off the news. Maybe it's gone.

[thegooddr]

cloughie,



Not sure it will ever truly go (would be a dream come true if it did
though). It does appear that the UK started to get hit in late
October/early November when the usual reports of hospital ward closures
hit. This carried on to a degree over christmas and into the
early part of the new year. The next reports were schools getting
it, which usually happens when the kids return to school after
christmas, bring bugs to school that have had at home and share them
with their mates at school. This then passes through as many
schools and childcare facilities as it can and then it dies back for
the summer. I think one of the reasons that it has been in the
papers a lot recently and probably over exagerating it is
twofold. Firstly schools have closed. In the past schools
would not close and they would just get through it, I think now (and I
wait to be corrected on this) that health and education authorities
have taken out new policies on disinfection of schools and use school
closure to try and break the cycle of infection. So this is why
it hit the headlines. Secondly, and quite tragically there was a
case of a girl who contracted viral gastroenteritis and then she died,
now I have not heard a post-mortem report on why she died and if gastro
played any part in it, but I think the media sniffed this one out and
ran with it.



But this week, school closures are old news and so there are not so
many reports in the papers and I think the hospitals are more or less
containing the situation. Both of these things most likely
indicate a general drop off in community infection rates and as such we
are fast approaching the end of the peak of infection.



This year has been even further confused by the presence of influenza B
which can cause some gastric symptoms, and as such there may be over
reporting of viral gastro in schools which is really due to flu.



Iain

[neesy]

Thanks Iain - that all makes so much sense and makes me feel a whole lot better![img]smileys/smilies_01.gif[/img]

[thegooddr]

As a follow up to my last post - I noticed today that the post mortem
results on this girl who died suggests she died from a DVT, possibly
due to her being laid up in bed for a while during her illness.



A very tragic incident indeed.



Iain

[laneyb]

I couldnt believe how sad that story was, and there was me thinking I'd only get a DVT after flying long distance!!


It kinda makes worrying about getting a sv* a bit futile (but I know thats not really truein my head!!)


My heart goes out to herfamily.


Laney [img]smileys/smilies_06.gif[/img]