Norovirus typically has an incubation period of 24–48 hours, but can remain detectable in stool for weeks, with a median time to loss of detectable virus of about one month.
Sources
- Ten Interesting Things About Norovirus Worth Knowing (blogs.nejm.org)
- https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html (cdc.gov)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3722520/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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