Cases of norovirus are beginning to increase in areas of the U.S. But, experts say, you can’t rely on hand sanitizer alone to protect you from this particular bug. Instead, there are other ways to keep yourself and your home safe during norovirus season.

Norovirus causes gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramps. It can spread quickly in places where people are sharing living spaces, such as on cruise ships , and outbreaks tend to spike at this time of year.

Cases of norovirus, sometimes called the “winter vomiting disease,” do typically rise around this time of year. But the last norovirus season was particularly thanks to the emergence of a highly contagious variant of the virus, TODAY.com explained recently.

This season, as cases begin to tick

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