MIAMI: A common, highly contagious and sometimes deadly stomach bug known as norovirus costs the world some $64 billion dollars per year, mainly in lost productivity, researchers said Tuesday.

The study by experts at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland was published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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