Victoria's chief health officer, Charles Guest, issued an official warning about the impending outbreak.
"As is common with many viruses, norovirus can mutate and, through routine surveillance from our public health laboratories, we know it does so frequently," Guest told Fairfax on Friday.
"Occasionally the virus changes to become so different that the community has no effective immunity.
"This means that everyone who comes into contact with it is very susceptible to illness; whether contact is with faeces of an infected person or by being close to an infected person who is vomiting."
Children under five years old and the elderly are most at risk of catching gastro.
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