title: Notes from the field: norovirus outbreak at a boys' basketball tournament - Kentucky, February 2012.
abstract: On February 6, 2012, the Kentucky Department for Public Health was notified by a local health department of multiple cases of vomiting and diarrhea among participants in a statewide, 7th grade boys' basketball tournament that was held February 3-5. State and local health officials partnered with CDC in an investigation to determine the extent of the outbreak, confirm the cause, and assess potential modes of transmission.
mesh_terms: D000846:Anniversaries and Special Events; D001490:Basketball; D017250:Caliciviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D002648:Child; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007629:Kentucky; D008297:Male; D029322:Norovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014839:Vomiting