Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on UK hospitals trying the world's first norovirus vaccine

A new vaccine will be trialled in the UK to protect people from the worst of norovirus ahead of the winter season.

The contagious stomach bug causes vomiting and diarrhoea - and can have a huge strain on workplaces, schools and the health system. 

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says the effects of the vaccine on volunteers will be monitored on potential volunteers.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray UK corresponds with US now evening Gevin, Hi
there Heakevin. How is this going down? The news that
you've got Labor Party people in the UK going over
to assister Kamala Harris campaign in the US presidential election.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, quite a shock and certainly not what Donald Trump
is very happy with. The Prime Minister hre desperately trying
to play it all down, saying that he had only
recently met Donald Trump for a reconstructive dinner. He's never
met Kamala Harris, but he has met Joe Biden numerous times.
But the allegations are that, according to the Trump campaign

(00:35):
that has filed this complaint with the Federal Electoral Commission,
that this sort of foreign interference has come from the UK.
And that is because the head of operations for the
Labor Party, that's the party of government, posted on social
media that she had quote ten spots available for anyone
willing to travel to North Carolina to campaign for Kamala Harris,
adding we will sort out your housing. She said she

(00:58):
had around one hundred current and former party staff heading
to America before polling day. Now, this post on LinkedIn
has since been deleted and foreign nationals are really permitted
to serve as volunteers on campaigns in America, but as
long as they are not compensated. That's according to the
Federal Election Commission rules. And so the complaint by Donald

(01:20):
Trump and his campaign, he's both pretty pointed and quite
theatrical as well, referring obliquely, I think to American independence
and the War of Independence two hundred and fifty years ago.
But either way, Yeah, our Prime minister, I think, desperately
trying to play this down, saying they're doing it as
volunteers in their spare time, but others are thinking what

(01:43):
on earth are our government and machinations doing with this
in the American election.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Well, the trouble for Keirstarmer at this stage I would
have thought, is that odds on Trump's going to win.
And then Trump Trump is like a crazy guy, right,
he has deep, deep feels about things. So how on
earth is he going to get on with Kia when
they are two world leaders?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, exactly, It's going to be very interesting. And as
you said, you know, he didn't need a long memory
to remember this if he does get into power. So
I think, yeah, a lot of concern about you know,
the fact that Keir Starmer's volunteers within the party have
potentially plunged this country into a lot worse relationship with
America should Donald Trump become a president. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Absolutely, You eiver had nourovirus, Kevin Hah.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I've had something similar, whether it was never sort of
diagnosed as being nourovirus. It is, of course that very
very unpleasant bug that causes vomiting and diarrhea. It is
easily spreadable in the winter months and because of course
people tend to stay indoors, can affect peoples of all ages.
But it is really very serious, particularly in this country
and among the elderly. It is said that twelve thousand

(02:54):
are admitted to hospital with the bug each year. There
are eighty deaths, and it costs the NHS Health Service
roughly two hundred million New Zealand dollars a year annually.
And that's why a trial is being now undertaken with
thousands of people to find out if a new vaccine
could protect against norovirus. Indeed, they are looking for volunteers.

(03:17):
It sounds a dodgy experience to me that I must
say volunteering for something like that, But there will be
those keen to take part, and good on them, better.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Them than us. Now, okay, explain to me how you managed, Like,
if you were going to order a pizza with a
side of cocaine, did you have to know the special
code or did it just round?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yes, that is what prosecutors in Germany are saying. So
in West Germany police raided a pizzeria in their jurisdiction
and said that if you ordered number forty on the menu,
it was code for a pizza with a side order
of cocaine. Apparently, police went to detain the pizzeria manager

(03:59):
at is a part apartment. The thirty six year old
is reported to have thrown a bag of drugs out
of the window and there was a police officer underneath
ready to catch it. Police found, it is said, one
point six kilograms of cocaine, four hundred grams of cannabis
and quite a lot of cash about half a million
New Zealand dollars in cash at the apartment. The restaurant
manager was released by police a few days later, but

(04:22):
then reopen the restaurant and then, it is alleged, continued
to sell the drug and pizza combination, quite an unusual order.
That one, isn't it? I love it? That thought.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Three everything, Gevin, Thank you appreciate it. Gevin Gray are
UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
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