CUH visitor restrictions over swine flu outbreak

Patients at Cork’s biggest hospital can only receive one named visitor a day as hospital management attempt to ensure a swine flu outbreak doesn’t spread.

There has been an outbreak of influenza in two wards at Cork University Hospital (CUH) and one of these cases has been confirmed as the H1N1 virus. In one ward at CUH, there are seven cases of influenza.

Microbiologists are testing to see if any of these patients also contracted the H1N1 strain.