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January 05, 2013

Canada: Three more Vancouver hospital wards hit by norovirus

Via the Vancouver Sun: Three more hospital wards hit by norovirus. And one of them is in Lions Gate Hospital, here in North Vancouver. Excerpt:

The norovirus outbreak has forced containment protocol procedures at two more Vancouver General Hospital wards and one at Lions Gate Hospital.

Vancouver Coastal Health spokesman Anna Marie D'Angelo said Friday that wards on the ninth and 10th floors of the VGH Centennial Pavilion and the sixth floor of LGH have been added to the areas where patients appear to have contracted the virus.

January 05, 2013 at 04:21 PM in Norovirus, Nosocomial infections | Permalink

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