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Dr. Don and Professor Ben discuss the risks of eating pick your own berries during a norovirus spike in June 2026.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating pick your own berries in an area during a norovirus spike in June 2026. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Outbreaks, occurrence, and control of norovirus and hepatitis a virus contamination in berries: A review - PubMed Eurosurveillance | Large multistate outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis associated with frozen strawberries, Germany, 2012 Farm to fork quantitative microbial risk assessment for norovirus on frozen strawberries - ScienceDirect Inactivation of hepatitis A virus and norovirus on berries by broad-spectrum pulsed light - PubMed

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