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Your blood type may influence your vulnerability to norovirus, the winter vomiting virus

  • Written by Patricia L. Foster, Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
Projectile vomiting is common with norovirus.Elnur/Shutterstock.com

In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as stomach flu, norovirus infections cause watery diarrhea, low-grade fever and, most alarming of all, projectile vomiting, which is an extremely effective way of spreading...

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