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Long-term care facilities are by far the most common settings for norovirus outbreaks, dwarfing the number of outbreaks in hospitals, according to government data released Tuesday.
More than 2,000 outbreaks of norovirus originated in a long-term care facility between 2009 and 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Only about 120 outbreaks occurred in hospitals during those years.
Norovirus also hits the elderly especially hard, with the majority of annual hospitalizations and deaths occurring among seniors and very young children. There were about 800 deaths due to norovirus between 2009 and 2012, according to the CDC report