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Sydney Vomiting Bug Poses Risk for Cruise-Line Passengers
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A new strain of a vomiting bug first found in Australia has killed nursing home residents from California to Japan, spoiled luxury cruises and may have sickened more than 1 million Britons so far in its global sweep.
The new norovirus, identified in Sydney last March, caused the worst bout of gastroenteritis in a decade in Australia’s Victoria state last year. Health-care facilities in the Northern Hemisphere should prepare for a “severe” epidemic this winter, researchers from eight countries said in a report this month.