{"id":30183,"date":"2020-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/17\/stomach-virus-strikes-170-yosemite-visitors-staff\/"},"modified":"2020-01-21T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:10:07","slug":"stomach-virus-strikes-170-yosemite-visitors-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/17\/stomach-virus-strikes-170-yosemite-visitors-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Stomach Virus Strikes 170 Yosemite Visitors, Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Two cases confirmed as norovirus, and most of the others are consistent with the virus<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; About 170 visitors and employees at Yosemite National Park have been hit by gastrointestinal illness, park officials say.<\/p>\n<p>They said most of the cases occurred around the first week of January and the number of new cases has declined in the past several days, <i>CNN<\/i> reported. Two of the cases are confirmed as norovirus, and most of the others are consistent with the virus, according to the park officials.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is being investigated by the park, which has improved sanitation measures to prevent further spread of the illness.<\/p>\n<p>Norovirus is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in the United States, and causes about 21 million illnesses a year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/17\/health\/yosemite-national-park-norovirus\/index.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two cases confirmed as norovirus, and most of the others are consistent with the virus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-30183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}