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The Norwalk Virus. This thing has a name. Good. Now we can tell people who suddenly break out into a green, trembling sweat what they have.

In the Army we would just call it a case of the "shits." Now we can upgrade it to the Norwalk Virus. - Tom

I was sick with something last week with the same symptoms. The worst part was severe abdominal pain for about 3-5 hours. (Poor husband didn't get much sleep and had to go to work.) Felt crappy for better part of the week, but managed. Seems to me this is not unlike other gastro type infections, you just have to get over it and treat the symptoms(although anything like this is dangerous for the elderly, infants, and immune deficient).
Maybe what's driving some to the hospital is the severe abdominal pain (at times it seemed unbearable to me and I had all my kids med-free.)

By the way, at our house we call activity at one end, the "Hershey's (as in squirts) and the other end the "Ralphs". No use of the phrase "up-chucking"out of respect for my father, Charles.