The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Saturday against eating oysters harvested from a part of West Karako Bay in Louisiana for possible contamination of the norovirus.

In an advisory published at the agency's website, the FDA said customers must particularly avoid mussels harvested between Dec. 3 and Dec. 21 from growing area 3 of the bay

The Nepalese government on Wednesday sounded the alarm on the recurring diarrhea outbreak in the region, with over 200 people killed and 16,162 cases reported in the first six months of the year alone.

According to Dr. Manas Kumar Banerjee, project coordinator of Avian Influenza Control Project under the Epidemiology and Disease Control Unit (EDCU), the government would implement a massive campaign and operational research throughout the region to determine the causes behind the "focal epidemic

An outbreak of gastroenteritis has struck about 100 schoolchildren staying in Canberra on Wednesday.

Health authorities said the students, four of whom received treatment in the hospital, are from Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. They are all staying at the one location

Officials have found the cause of the norovirus outbreak at Pioneer Primary School in Singapore. On Thursday, they found the cause was unsanitary preparation of foods and sharing of toilet facilities.

Six students were found positive with the norovirus after examination of stool samples

At least 150 inmates and seven guards have reportedly fallen ill at the Clark County jail in Las Vegas, Nevada after a norovirus outbreak as health authorities are currently working upon decontamination of the building. The stomach-related illness was reported Saturday, with most inmates complaining about distress such as diarrhea, vomiting and cramps.

AP reports that nearly all the infected inmates worked in the kitchen and authorities are speculating that the virus might have been spread throughout the 3,100-bed detention through the use of contaminated food or trays