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Posted Sat Jan 12 2008: from BBC (UK):
Stomach bug sweeping the country http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1200153859
"Doctors estimate more than 100,000 people a week are catching norovirus, which causes diarrhoea and vomiting... At least 56 hospital wards across England and Wales have been closed to new patients, the BBC has learned. The Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust says it is cancelling all non-urgent operations until 9 January because of what it calls the "unrelenting pressure" caused by the virus."
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