A vaccine is to be trialled on thousands of people to find out if it could protect against norovirus - a stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea. The easily spreadable winter virus can affect people of all ages and have huge consequences - often closing hospital wards, taking children out of school and keeping parents off work.

The late-stage trial will recruit about 25,000 people around the world to test the new vaccine from Moderna.View on euronews

Dr Patrick Moore, the study's chief investigator and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) director in the South West, stated that there are currently "no approved vaccines for norovirus anywhere in the world", and the only treatment available for severely ill patients in hospitals is intravenous fluids.

A groundbreaking vaccine for norovirus, the notorious winter vomiting bug, is set to enter final-stage trials in the UK within the next fortnight. Developed by Moderna using mRNA technology, the jab aims to combat three major strains of the highly contagious virus.

The world’s first norovirus vaccine is set to be trialled by the NHS in a bid to ease the strain on already stretched hospitals.

A new vaccine is to be trialled in the UK to deal with norovirus. Also known as the 'winter vomiting bug', norovirus is a highly transmissible stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea.

An important tip to help dodge norovirus has been issued as cases of the "winter vomiting bug" are on the rise. Health chiefs have said they are seeing their usual seasonal rise in cases of the bug.

Cases of the winter vomiting bug norovirus are surging across the country with numbers significantly higher than the same period last year. The most recent weekly figures in the weekly surveillance report for the Welsh Government show a 118% rise in cases on the previous week.

The jab uses mRNA technology to tell the immune system to recognise a ‘foreign’ protein on viruses and mount an attack.

A vaccine to guard against the winter vomiting bug norovirus is set for a year-long groundbreaking NHS trial after early results showed it creates a “strong immune response”. It is hoped an effective norovirus vaccine,