Vomiting bug closes UK wards
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Virulent norovirus has forced at least 56 hospital wards across England and Wales to close to new patients.
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England captain Phil Vickery has pulled out of his team's Six Nations game against Italy here on Sunday after failing to recover from a stomach bug he contracted overnight.
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HUNDREDS of patients are being warned they could have contracted hepatitis or HIV after undergoing a hospital procedure. The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust said there was a &quot;very low&quot; risk of
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Christchurch Hospital is urging people with vomiting and diarrhoea to stay away from its emergency department (ED) as it battles to contain an outbreak of norovirus.
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A worker who attended the Suffolk bird flu outbreak is in hospital with a mild respiratory illness, officials say.
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A tiger zoo in Thailand shut its doors yesterday after 23 of the animals died from bird flu and a further 30 were infected. Tigers at the Sri Racha zoo in Chonburi are believed to have
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Hospitals may be closed when patients are given choice, the health secretary says.
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Sixteen hospital deaths in the Northern Trust area are linked to an outbreak of the superbug C. difficile.
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Community health centres across Wales are closing because of a lack of funding, BBC Wales learns.
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Thousands of people in Britain have been sickened by the biggest outbreak of a winter vomiting virus in five years
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In a bid to free up blocked beds, patients are being discharged from hospital against their needs, a report shows.
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The Maternity Unit at the Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn will close within a year to 18 months, it is reported.
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ATLANTA -- A 90-year-old nursing home patient died from the stomach flu last year, marking the first time U.S. health officials confirmed that the highly contagious bug is sometimes fatal.
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Residents of an apartment community for seniors in Fairfax County might be the latest victims of the highly contagious norovirus, which Virginia health officials say has struck the state with severity this year, shuttering nursing homes, closing hotels and striking dozens of inmates at the Richmond...
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Two more children have come down with fever and symptoms of respiratory infections in a hospital where an outbreak of flu has claimed one life and stricken another 33.
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A Victorian aged care home has been sanctioned after claims by staff that it covered up a gastroenteritis outbreak and endangered the health of 54 patients.
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The Caritas Medical Centre situated in Shamshuipo, Hong Kong has activated infectious disease procedures following the admission of four more children with respiratory illness symptoms.