In reality, a new government analysis shows that you're more likely to get sick from the highly contagious gut bug in a far less exotic locale: at a local restaurant, spread by the (unwashed) hands of a food service worker.

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This transmission electron micrograph, or TEM, shows some of the structures of norovirus particles. It takes only a miniscule does of norovirus to make people sick, which is which the nasty bug is now the leading cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S., health officials said.

Workers who fail to properly wash hands or use gloves and the 1 in 5 who come to work sick with diarrhea and vomiting every year help make norovirus the leading cause of foodborne disease outbreaks in the U.S., according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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