The case summarized • Researchers have developed a potential vaccine against Norovirus, also known as social illness. Now it is now being tested on humans. • The vaccine is a tablet containing a modified version of the protein VP-1, found in the Norovirus. This tablet leads the protein into the small intestine. • In tests on healthy, older adults, participants tolerate all doses of the vaccine, and the side effects were mild. The vaccine also positively affected the immune system and produced antibodies that lasted 210 days. • There are several research environments working on the development of a vaccine against Norovirus, but it will probably take time for a vaccine to be available in Norway. The summary is made by a Ki service from Openai. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publishing. Norovirus, or what we in good Norwegian calls the social illness, spreads like fire in dry grass. You recognize yourself so well: the little man in the house starts to vomit, and you hardly manage to pick up the spy bucket. After a while, the whole family is down for counting. Within one year, about 700 million people are sick of the virus, and tens of thousands of humans die as a result. Small children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are most at risk. Now, scientists believe they may have developed a long -awaited vaccine against the famous virus. And they are testing it on humans. The new study is published in the journal Science. Much sick Marie Elnan Reitan has been an apprentice in kindergarten for almost eight months. The first half of the year has been characterized by a lot of disease. – I have received most of the diseases and bacteria. And I know that you get faster by being as close to people as we are in a kindergarten, but that I should receive so much, I wasn’t aware of that. – What’s the worst, cold or spysy? – Spysjuka, replies Reitan in cash. If we had a vaccine against the social illness available, would you have taken it? Yes! No! Don’t know. Show the result The apprentice believes a vaccine against Norovirus had been of great help. – If it had worked so that they had avoided spyskjuka, it would have been nice. We have had some social security, and there is always a new youngster who gets it. It’s hard to stop. And maybe American scientists have now found the answer. In the kindergarten in Steinkjer, hand washing is an important routine for keeping the bacteria away. They have their own song they sing while washing. Photo: Julie Haugen Egge / news Positive answers The vaccine, which is under testing, is a tablet. It contains a modified version of the VP-1 protein, which is found in the Norovirus. The tablet leads this protein into our small intestine. The researchers have given different doses of the tablet to two groups of healthy, older adults aged 55 to 80 years. They found that the volunteers tolerated all doses of the vaccine and that the side effects were mild. The vaccine should also have positively affected the immune system of participants. It provided antibodies against VP-1 that lasted 210 days. Signs were also found that the tablet can produce lasting immune responses in the mucosa, according to the study. Lego and small games that quickly move from one children’s hand to the other are potential sources of infection for such viruses. Photo: Julie Haugen Egge / news This is how you can best avoid the sickness advice to avoid the infection is simple, but probably the only ones that work, according to Norwegian Health Informatics. Wash your hands! This should be done often and thoroughly with soap and running water. Good hygiene in the kitchen is also important. In Norovirus infection, research has shown that hand disinfectant has a limited effect. Therefore, cleaning with soap and water is important to remove viruses. Clothes or bedding should be washed at 60 degrees to ensure that the virus is killed. Do not divide towels, glass, cutlery or washcloth with others. A complicated affair at the start of last week, Drammen Hospital had to go in yellow preparedness due to outbreaks of Norovirus. A few days later, it was also known that the Hamar Hospital had a similar outbreak. Hilde Marie Lund is a doctor at the Institute of Public Health. She says that although the Norovirus is very troublesome while it is on, it is still something that most of us can tolerate quite well. But she is not negative to a vaccine. – A vaccine will potentially cause fewer people to become ill, reduce the risk of outbreaks in health institutions and reduce sickness absence. At the same time, it is an infection that for most is short -lived and goes away by itself, even though it is uncomfortable while the symptoms are on. Hilde Marie Lund is a doctor at FHI. She says there are several environments trying to create a vaccine against Norovirus. Photo: Julie Haugen Egge / news The doctor says it is complicated to develop a good vaccine against Norovirus. – First, this is a virus that changes rapidly, and there are many different variants. In order for a vaccine to be effective, it must ensure that it protects against several different variants. Lund says that there are several research environments that are developing a Norovirus vaccine, but she still thinks it will take time before anything will be on the market in Norway. -Then we are far away but even if a norovirus vaccine can take some time, it may be worth waiting for. At least that’s what Ann Elisabeth Kjøraas thinks. She is the unit manager in the same kindergarten as Marie Elnan Reitan is an apprentice. Kjøraas says Spysjuka often causes them to become too few people at work. – When these rounds of social illness come, they often turn out many at the same time. Then the challenge becomes quickly that we become too little people. It is also not easy to get hold of temporary workers. Then we release these rounds, we are far away, she says. The unit manager believes they have had less illness after the corona pandemic, and that they have taken good habits with them. – We divide a lot into groups and are a lot outdoors. There is also a lot of hand washing with soap and water. Both before and after all meals, but also when we have been doing different things. Ann Elisabeth Kjøraas is the unit manager in Søndre Egge kindergarten. She says they have brought some lessons from the corona about the spread of infection. Photo: Julie Haugen Egge / news Published 11.03.2025, at. 17.28
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