The global economic burden of norovirus is a staggering $60 billion per year, with an annual death toll of 200,000, according to new estimates from a collection of studies on the disease and its impact.
The reports, published yesterday in Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals, came from a February 2015 symposium sponsored by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal of the meeting was to build a multidisciplinary knowledge base about the disease to help support the development of a vaccine targeted to one of the hardest-hit groups: children in the developing world.
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