NOROVIRUS FORCES TO REMEMBER OLD PRINCIPLES OF HYGIENE AND KITCHEN

More than 100 cases filed this week, a prestigious hotel in Scotland

Just wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water, carefully clean the area where cooking, washing clothes often and eat well cooked food, you can avoid a number of diseases and the spread of norovirus embarrassing, disastrous when about enjoying a good holiday, interrupted for more than 24 hours of vomiting and gastroenteritis.

Anyone can be spread when a person touches their mouth with unwashed hands or contaminated food and drinking water. Pollution in prestigious restaurants and luxury hotels put on alert the population and the question arises, whether it is meeting the minimum standards of hygiene.

Norovirus likes to stay in water environments, where it survives long time, but also kept in the kitchen surfaces where you left hours ago a shellfish contaminated, or shopping bag, for example. Maybe the soiled clothes to go out and the virus can remain alive one week, unless you wash.

Otherwise, the virus can travel through fecal contamination to receive food prepared with unwashed hands.

The hygiene standards require clean cooking surfaces, wear clean clothes when working in such environments, and touching the hand washing products.

When shopping, vegetables are eaten cooked, washed and placed in the bottom of refrigerators in bags or separate from the rest of the vegetables eaten raw.

The vegetables that are eaten raw can also go in covered containers or bags to marinate food.

The fruits are washed well and put in a clean and secluded. If you go to the refrigerator should be separated.

The products are cooled on their own containers are allowed, as is the case of milk, butter, and in closed containers, if a freshly cooked food and separate.

Finally, when buying shellfish and meats are in the top tray, properly protected, because usually if raw foods are more polluting.

Mollusks living in areas contaminated with human waste, easily get norovirus. The droppings can come for example waste from ships.

New research in the Gulf of Mexico reported recently, will help create areas closed to oyster harvesting in areas where water is contaminated.

Raw oysters and undercooked shellfish in salads are an excellent source of norovirus, not only dangerous to eat, but to contaminate the other products from home if not kept hygiene. The most recommended is that once you enter are washed, cooked and consumed immediately.

Recent public pollution

More than 100 people were infected with norovirus at the prestigious Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland, reports the Scotsman half today.

Guests showed symptoms after sleeping in the place last week. Norovirus is known to take 24 to 48 hours after symptoms manifest multiply in the gut.

Gleneagles spokesman, said both residents and guests and staff were infected.

The hotel was home to big stars and home of golf tournaments and international G8 summit in 2006 and will host the golf tournament in 2014.

Most are already recovered but still some symptoms.

Norovirus is normally eliminated by man without treatment, but people with immunodeficiency, young or old may have additional problems.

In January, a division of Hastings Conquest Hospital closed its doors after receiving 5 cases of norovirus, to prevent transmission to other patients. They are more vulnerable to risk of life.

Something that only humans can avoid with better hygiene and nutrition, is 21 million cases annually in the U.S., 70 000 are hospitalized and 800 die.