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The rotaviruses are the major cause of acute diarrhea in children worldwide (30-60%), nor to follow a rate from 8 to 30%, the astrovirus with 6.9% and with adenoviruses rate 6.9%. Rotaviruses are the ones who are responsible for 50% of epidemic diarrheal syndromes in infants and children, and in recent years infections nor are increasing in both children and adults. Enteroviruses, and coronaviruses are additional viruses that cause viral gastroenteritis. Gastrointestinal infections occur several times in the form of clusters or epidemics and is usually the result of transmission of pathogens through ingestion of contaminated food or drugs, or by patients or staff members or through the transmission of responsible microorganisms from patient to patient due not good washing of medical and nursing staff hands. In order to define some cases as an epidemic, should be their number varies according to the agent, size and type of population exposed, how vulnerable is the population exposed and the time and the outbreak area. Places where many people gather, promote gastro manifestation, and therefore can not be complete prevention. However, there are some steps that can easily prevent an epidemic. Keywords: epidemic gastroenteritis, norovirus, rotavirus, contagious, prevention