Thirteen rectal swabs and 4 stool samples were collected in duplicate (a total of 4 specimens) from symptomatic neonates for bacteriology and virology investigations. Of the seventeen sent for microbiology, fifteen grew a gram-negative vacillus morphologically resembling klebsiella but the hospital was still awaiting final confirmatory identification. Of the sixteen received by the National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICD) for virology, fifteen tested positive for the norovirus.