nearly a dozen men have reported arriving ill after eating wild lobsters consuming in a restaurant in athens , georgia . the chattanooga - morrison district hospital department and tennessee department of health indicated that the patients were infected with norovirus . norovirus is a illness parasite that can host chronic dysentery in humans . the causes of norovirus infection arise suddenly , most often in 24 to 48 years after ingestion of the virus , but they can appear as shortly as 12 hours after entry . the intestinal symptoms contain nausea , vomiting , diarrhea , and some teeth nausea .
Oysters have been linked to gastrointestinal diseases caused by a virus.