Beware More than Just the Yellow Snow! A Norovirus Outbreak Associated with a Ski Resort
Received Date: Nov 10, 2015 / Accepted Date: May 13, 2016 / Published Date: May 20, 2016
Abstract
A laboratory-confirmed Norovirus outbreak occurred at an Arizona ski resort February 2013. A case-control study was performed by the University of Arizona’s student outbreak response team (SAFER) in collaboration with county and state health departments. 46 cases and 25 controls were interviewed quickly. Having eaten at a restaurant at the ski resort was significantly associated with being a case (odds ratio [OR]=9.7) and in particular, the base restaurant (OR=24.9). While the outbreak was likely the result of environmental contamination in the restaurant, the consumption of French fries may have played a significant role. This investigation highlights a successful collaboration between academic and applied public health.
Keywords: Outbreak investigations, Norovirus, Infectious diseases
Citation: Pope B, Pogreba-Brown K (2016) Beware More than Just the Yellow Snow! A Norovirus Outbreak Associated with a Ski Resort. Epidemiology (Sunnyvale) 6:244. Doi: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000244
Copyright: © 2016 Pope B, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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