There Is An Outbreak Of A Very Contagious Virus In Mogilev And Its Vicinity

• 10.03.2026, 9:19

The disease is particularly dangerous for some people.

In Mogilev and Mogilev district there is an increase in the number of cases of norovirus infection, including group outbreaks of the disease, the Mogilev Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology reported.

Norovirus infection affects all age groups, but the greatest danger it poses to the elderly, children and people with weakened health.

Norovirus is one of the varieties of intestinal viruses, which causes acute intestinal infection. Norovirus is highly contagious: just 10-100 virus particles are enough to cause infection. An infected person can infect others at the peak of the illness and for the next 48 hours. A person is usually infectious for several weeks (usually 7-14 days) after recovery, which causes infection of others and epidemic danger.

The virus is usually excreted from a sick person with natural discharges and other secretions, such as vomit. The main routes of norovirus transmission are:

contact and domestic (ingestion of the virus through unwashed hands, household items, utensils, etc.);

food (a person is infected by eating unwashed fruits, vegetables or food infected by a sick person during cooking);

water (a person is infected by drinking a certain amount of liquid containing the virus);

airborne (as a result of inhalation of air containing viral particles).

According to doctors, most often the transmission of the virus occurs from a sick person to a healthy person through household items. Unlike bacteria, intestinal viruses in food, water, on the surface of objects do not multiply, but survive for a long time. This is characteristic of norovirus: wet cleaning with conventional detergents and alcohol-containing agents does not ensure its destruction, the virus is resistant to drying, freezing, heating up to 60 degrees Celsius. It is killed only by chlorine disinfectants.