Norovirus Disinfection
ITS Environmental Services is the leading expert in the disinfection of Norovirus. We provide emergency commercial and residential disinfecting services throughout New York, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Norovirus is a very contagious virus that can infect anyone. You can get it from an infected person, contaminated food or water, or by touching contaminated surfaces. The virus causes your stomach or intestines or both to get inflamed. This leads you to have stomach pain, nausea, and diarrhea and to throw up. These symptoms can be serious for some people, especially young children and older adults.
Norovirus Symptoms can include:
diarrhea
throwing up
nausea
stomach pain
fever
headache
body aches
Norovirus Transmission
Norovirus is a highly contagious virus. Anyone can get infected with norovirus and get sick. Also, you can get norovirus illness many times in your life. One reason for this is that there are many different types of noroviruses. Being infected with one type of norovirus may not protect you against other types. Norovirus can be found in your stool (feces) even before you start feeling sick. The virus can stay in your stool for 2 weeks or more after you feel better. You can become infected with norovirus by accidentally getting stool or vomit from infected people in your mouth.
This usually happens by:
eating food or drinking liquids that are contaminated with norovirus
touching surfaces or objects contaminated with norovirus then putting your fingers in your mouth
having contact with someone who is infected with norovirus (for example, caring for or sharing food or eating utensils with someone with norovirus illness)
Norovirus can spread quickly in closed places like daycare centers, nursing homes, schools, and cruise ships. Most norovirus outbreaks happen from November to April in the United States.
Norovirus Disinfection Methods should include:
After throwing up or having diarrhea, immediately clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces. Use a chlorine bleach solution with a concentration of 1000–5000 ppm (5–25 tablespoons of household bleach [5.25%] per gallon of water) or other disinfectant registered as effective against norovirus by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).