More shigellosis 'stomach flu' cases reported in Indian River

Health officials are urging parents and teachers to promote hand-washing in children to halt a local outbreak of shigella infections.

Green shopping bags linked to stomach flu

An entire girl's soccer team was infected with an outbreak of norovirus. The source: a reusable grocery bag that they ate cookies from.

Illness slams Flag school

A wave of so-called "stomach flu" rolled through and crashed hard recently at Flagstaff's Mountain School, infecting dozens of people at the small campus and drawing the notice of the county health department.

Kobe Bryant Has Flu-Like Symptoms, Questionable For Game 6

The Los Angeles Lakers play the Denver Nuggets tonight at 7:30, and they may be doing so without their star Kobe Bryant. Bryant missed the shoot-around this morning because he was suffering from intestinal flu-like symptoms. Lakers Coach Mike Brown said that he expects Kobe to suit up, flu or no flu. Brown said: “If I were [...] Kobe Bryant Has Flu-Like Symptoms, Questionable For Game 6 is a ...

Oregon norovirus traced to reusable grocery bag

PORTLAND, OR -- Almost everyone washes their vegetables, but almost no one washes their reusable grocery bags and that could make you sick. For the first time, researchers at Oregon Health and Sciences University have linked the norovirus, which causes stomach flu symptoms, to inanimate objects.   Six Oregon girls attending a soccer tournament in Washington state in 2011 came down with symptoms ...