The Commonwealth Games baton has been passed from Delhi to Glasgow, two cities thousands of miles apart but with more in common than you might think when it comes to hosting this quadrennial sports event.

With the 2014 Games starting this week, a nasty bug has struck the athletes' village in Glasgow. Delhi also faced health concerns at the athletes' village in 2010, as well as stray dogs and a rogue cobra or two.

Glasgow's nasty bug isn't the name of a Govan gangster or an antisocial ladybird pestering residents of the Gorbals. It is norovirus.

A recent outbreak left dozens of workers at the athletes' village ill. Norovirus sounds like the lethal pathogen that a Bond villain is preparing to unload on San Francisco, but in reality it is a mild stomach bug that lasts little more than a day. The name doesn't fit; it feels wrong, like meeting a baby called Nigel.

The Scotsman quoted local health consultant Gillian Penrice as saying the number of new norovirus cases is falling.