Health
Gastro soars in child care centres after COVID-19 restrictions eased – The Age
Cases of viral gastroenteritis have soared in Victorian childcare centres since coronavirus restrictions were eased with parents being urged to keep their sick…
Childcare centres are a nursery for children, but also for bugs, Professor Booy said.
The problem with gastro is that its so easily transmitted by touch and the infection is only extinguished by children with symptoms staying home.
Professor Booy said our bodies were colonised by millions of bugs and while most were good for our health, the occasional one has the potential to be nasty.
Our lungs have got a flora that is to say a series of bugs that sit there mostly quietly colonising, but it can…
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