[/floatl]Xinhua: Travelers warned of Japan virus outbreak
Shenzhen's tourism bureau warned local travelers who are planning to travel to Japan not to eat raw seafood after a record outbreak of the highly contagious norovirus infected more than 3 million people in that country... "Japan has been hit by gastroenteritis caused by norovirus infection recently. The epidemic that infected tens of thousands people is the most serious one during the past 25 years," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on its Web site Monday...The institute is concerned that the outbreak may show "the largest ever spread." The virus is typically transmitted by eating raw seafood and also from human to human by substances excreted or vomited...More than 3 million people in the country are thought to have been infected by norovirus, the highest since data was first collected in 1989, according to Japan's national institute of infectious diseases...more...
