Can You Get Norovirus Twice? Infectious Disease Experts Explain
, it’s understandable to never, ever want to go through that level of intense vomiting and diarrhea again. Cue searching online for, “Can you get norovirus twice?” to try to see what might be ahead.
Unfortunately, as with many viruses, norovirus has multiple strains. Which makes the possibility of getting it more than once real. Of course, the details are a little more complicated. Here’s what you need to know about whether you can get norovirus twice, and how it all works.Yes, you can get norovirus twice. “People can get infected with norovirus countless times,” says infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
The good news: While you can get norovirus twice , you’re not likely to get it as often as you would a cold. “There are many more genotypes and different agents for the common cold,” explains Thomas Russo, M.D., an infectious disease expert at the University of Buffalo in New York. “So, the risk of reinfection is much less for norovirus, where nearly everyone gets one or more colds per year.
Still, “It is probably unlikely that one can get infected immediately after recovering,” Dr. Adalja says. But, he adds, “Over a period of weeks, that will fall and susceptibility will increase.”Norovirus can be tough to avoid when it’s going around, but there are a few things you can do to lower your risk. The
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