Wards Closed As the Winter Bug Bites Early ; Young Visitors Banned As Hospital Brings in Measures to Halt Virus

Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › September 24, 2009

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SIX hospital wards have been closed to new admissions after being hit early by the vomiting bug, norovirus, which normally strikes in winter.

Officials have restricted visiting across the entire University Hospital of North Staffordshire to just one hour a day between 6.30pm and 7.30pm to stop it spreading further.

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Wards Closed As the Winter Bug Bites Early ; Young Visitors Banned As Hospital Brings in Measures to Halt Virus

They have also banned all children visitors.

Trust bosses say it is rare to have so many cases of the infection ahead...

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