What was this virus?

Factual Questions
1

My whole family had it, and I’m just getting over it. I had a flu shot a month ago; don’t know if that’s pertinent or not.

Starts off with achiness and fatigue. It caused all of us to puke our guts out on the first day; the baby was barfing for days.

It gave me the shits for about 5 days, too. Just about the worst diarrhea I’ve ever had except for campilobacter poisoning.

Any ideas?

2

It could be one of the rotoviruses, like Norwalk. They are very contagious. Meticulous hand washing is the one preventative.

3

That’s what I was going to suggest, too. My daughter had it last year, and it was truly awful. Our pediatrician said it’s so contagious, my husband and I must have had it as kids, or we probably would have caught it from her.