Acute infectious gastroenteritis caused by Norovirus is running riot in the western part of Japan now. It was the first time I had heard the name Norovirus. I scoured many papers and found that Norovirus was SRSV (Small Round Structured Virus). SRSV is well known and was written-up in the textbook when I was a medical student. I don't know why, but the name of SRSV was changed to Norovirus in 2002. I experienced the outbreak of rotavirus infected enteritis about 20 years ago in my resident days but didn't know how serious the infection of Norovirus was. If the patients are aged people, some could die from dehydration. I gave some treatments this week.
(Vocabulary)
run riot 〈人が〉 暴れ［騒ぎ］回る 〈植物が〉 はびこる
scour …をくまなく捜す［調べる］
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