内容摘要：Members of the Abu Jarad family, who were displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, build a new tent in Gaza City, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Members of the Abu Jarad family, who were displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, build a new tent in Gaza City, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Norovirus is highly contagious, often spread by food or on surfaces, particularly in crowded conditions. It is a short-lived illness for many people, but it can be dangerous for people with underlying health conditions, young children and those aged 65 and older.There are many different types of norovirus, but typically one dominant strain causes illness outbreaks, Jaykus said.

This year, a new epidemic strain has emerged, called GII.17. This version has circulated at low levels for years, but it was behind a surge in U.S. norovirus outbreaks this past winter.Between Aug. 1 and April 9, more than 2,400 suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreaks were reported to a CDC monitoring system, roughly double for the same period a year earlier. The GII.17 strain has been responsible“It’s new to the population,” Jaykus said, which means most people don’t have immunity to the germ, so it can spread more widely.

People infected with norovirus typically shed “literally billions of viral particles,” said Schaffner, the food safety expert. And it only takes a few viral particles to make someone sick.The first rule should be for sick people to stay home, he said. That’s not possible on a cruise.

If people get sick on a cruise ship, they’re required to report the illness and isolate themselves, but many fail to do so.

“You spent all this money for a fancy cruise and you’re feeling a little bit under the weather, so you tough it out,” Schaffner said. “But in the meantime, now you spread the virus.”Losing Mom, my best friend, was hard enough. Dismantling my childhood home only magnified her loss — and made me ponder my own legacy. Mom’s house had been the center of gatherings for relatives and friends who enjoyed her Italian cooking of manicottis, chicken cutlets and baked goods and then convened around her restored 1936 baby grand piano singing showtunes — sometimes off key.

So how do you clear out a childhood home to prep for a sale while honoring Mom’s passion for all things cultural and love of family?In this photo provided by D’Innocenzio Family Collection, Anne D’Innocenzio, third from left, her late parents Michael and Marie D’Innocenzio and her late brother Robert pose in the back of the family’s childhood home in the late 1970s, in suburban New Jersey. (D’Innocenzio Family Collection via AP)

In this photo provided by D’Innocenzio Family Collection, Anne D’Innocenzio, third from left, her late parents Michael and Marie D’Innocenzio and her late brother Robert pose in the back of the family’s childhood home in the late 1970s, in suburban New Jersey. (D’Innocenzio Family Collection via AP)My parents weren’t hoarders, and every year, she made my sister and me clear out more items from the attic. But Mom still had lots of mementos, mostly neatly boxed in the attic. They covered the gamut from her college notebooks to outfits from our childhood. There were several hundred record albums and 80 labeled boxes of carousels filled with 5,000 slides.