Is California Ready for a Stronger Strain of Norovirus?

Is California Ready for a Stronger Strain of Norovirus?

There are worse viruses out there, but norovirus stands out for some of the more grotesque elements of its symptoms. As Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker wrote in The Guardian in 2013, “Everywhere the norovirus goes it leaves vast steaming lakes of freshly expelled vomit in its wake.” (The prose gets more evocative from there.) And as of mid-December 2025, the next destination to suffer from such a nasty outbreak might just be the Golden Stat…

CDC Reports Norovirus Outbreak on a Cruise Ship Scheduled to Visit Santa Barbara on Thursday

A cruise ship is scheduled to visit Santa Barbara on Thursday following a CDC report stating the ship experienced a norovirus outbreak.