Wards closed as winter vomiting bug spreads

WARDS have been closed to visitors and surgery cancelled as the winter vomiting bug continues to spread, infecting 110 patients in two Dublin hospitals.

Wards closed as winter vomiting bug spreads

At the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Tallaght, 180 patients have been quarantined as a result of an outbreak affecting 50 people and all scheduled surgery has been cancelled. Another 60 patients are showing symptoms of the bug in St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has asked people displaying symptoms of the bug not to visit hospitals to prevent passing on the virus to patients.

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