Fact sheets

Norovirus fact sheet (PDF 193.47KB)

Public health action

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

• Communicable Disease Guidelines, for teachers, childcare workers, local government authorities and medical practitioners. Department of Health, Western Australia

• Guidelines for the Management of Outbreaks of Gastroenteritis in Residential Care Facilities (PDF 960KB)

• Recognising and managing a gastroenteritis outbreak in residential care facilities (poster - PDF 65KB)

• OD 0103/08 Public Health Intervention for Sporadic Enteric Notifications

• OD 0101/08 Exclusion Guidelines for Patients with Enteric Infections and Their Contacts
  

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

• WA epidemiology

Exclusion

Exclude from work, school, childcare and other situations where disease transmission may occur for 24 hours after case becomes asymptomatic and has formed stools.
Enteric precautions for hospitalised or institutionalised patients.