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16/03/2009
Bug Shuts 'Ulster' Wards
A virus that causes vomiting and diarrhoea has caused the closure of several wards at a hospital in east Belfast.
Four wards at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald have been closed to new admissions after an outbreak of a winter vomiting bug. Around 33 patients have been affected by the norovirus outbreak at the hospital the South Eastern Trust has confirmed.
Friends and families of patients there have been told not to visit if they have been suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea symptoms.
Unlike other more serious hospital-acquired infections, the 'bug' was today described as "a short, sharp illness lasting usually 48 hours".
In contrast, a new generation of an occasionally deadly infection was discovered last year in hospitals.
This more virulent strain of C-Difficile - known as '027' - was found in patients in some of Belfast's hospitals.
It is a strain of the infection that was linked to the deaths of over 60 people in the Northern Health Trust area alone.
However, health officials said last summer they were setting up a range of measures to combat the bug.
See: Super Bug 'Killing Patients'
(BMcC/JM)
Four wards at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald have been closed to new admissions after an outbreak of a winter vomiting bug. Around 33 patients have been affected by the norovirus outbreak at the hospital the South Eastern Trust has confirmed.
Friends and families of patients there have been told not to visit if they have been suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea symptoms.
Unlike other more serious hospital-acquired infections, the 'bug' was today described as "a short, sharp illness lasting usually 48 hours".
In contrast, a new generation of an occasionally deadly infection was discovered last year in hospitals.
This more virulent strain of C-Difficile - known as '027' - was found in patients in some of Belfast's hospitals.
It is a strain of the infection that was linked to the deaths of over 60 people in the Northern Health Trust area alone.
However, health officials said last summer they were setting up a range of measures to combat the bug.
See: Super Bug 'Killing Patients'
(BMcC/JM)
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