Researchers at Vaxart Inc. and the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland School of Medicine evaluated the safety and immunogenicity of an oral norovirus vaccine tablet, VXA-G1.1-NN.

Respiratory syncytial virus is a common, highly contagious illness that often causes mild upper respiratory symptoms, akin to a cold. In babies, particularly those with tiny airways, RSV can cause the accumulation of mucus in the lungs, making it difficult to breathe and eat.

If you have the norovirus, you'll likely not experience respiratory symptoms such as congestion and a cough according to Doctor Stuart Ray, a professor of medicine and oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Having a headache, sore throat and cough are symptoms that “differentiate norovirus from influenza,” Martinello adds.

The recent norovirus outbreak has led scientists to consider the threat of a “quademic” this winter. The Quademic consists of the norovirus, flu, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), and COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that this winter,

Unlike colds and the flu, muscle aches and fever are less common in norovirus. “It typically doesn’t cause fever, and so it’s not like when you have the flu or COVID, where you’ll have muscle aches and pains and upper respiratory symptoms like a ru ...