Current Stomach Bug 2024. Norovirus is extremely contagious, and, as anyone who has had it can tell you, extremely unpleasant. The bug, which causes intense but blessedly short episodes of vomiting and diarrhea — with or without a brief period of fever, chills, and body aches — has been on.
Norovirus, also called the winter vomiting bug, is a stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea. If you’ve been bit by a stomach bug lately, you’re not alone.