norovirus

One in six Americans -- about 48 million people -- get sick from a food-borne illness each year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said in new estimates released yesterday (Wednesday, Dec. 15). Another 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die every year from tainted food, CDC said. The agency...

You might eat hummus because it's healthy and tasty, but the Mediterranean treat topped the list of foods that made people sick in a single outbreak, according to a just-released study of outbreaks of food poisoning that sickened people. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied...

Celebrity Cruise's Mercury finally left the port at Charleston, S.C. this week after three days of intensive cleaning. The scrubbing aimed to rid the ship of any traces of the intestinal illness that has hit more than 1,000 passengers over three consecutive sailings. The three-day cleaning...