The highly contagious stomach virus that shut down a hotel near Dulles Airport last weekend cropped up in an Annapolis assisted living facility, which quarantined 15 elderly residents.
There is no story here. I recommend you don't come in. I don't want you to get sick with what they have," Elona Myers, director of the Sunrise Senior Living facility in Annapolis, told The Examiner.
Sunrise quarantined 15 patients with gastroenteritis an inflammation of the intestines and stomach, said Megan Lublin, spokeswoman for Sunrise Senior Living. Quarantined patients are suffering from gastroenteritis and stomach-flu," she said.
Gastroenteritis is caused by norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The highly contagious norovirus is the same infection that caused the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport hotel to close for a floor-to-ceiling disinfection after 120 people were infected.