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UK: Burnley hospital takes action after Chicken pox outbreak

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Source: http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/n...ital_takes_action_after_Chicken_pox_outbreak/


Burnley hospital takes action after Chicken pox outbreak
7:30pm Thursday 21st April 2011
By Neil Docking ? Reporter


PREMATURE babies have been isolated at East Lancashire Hospitals after an outbreak of chickenpox.

A member of staff and a visitor in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre were found to have developed the virus...
 
Re: UK: Burnley hospital takes action after Chicken pox outbreak

Source: http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/news/c...flagship_women_s_and_childen_s_unit_1_3323908


Chicken pox outbreak at Burnley?s flagship women?s and childen?s unit

By Hannah Ramsden
Published on Tuesday 26 April 2011 11:32

BABIES in intensive care at Burnley General Hospital have been isolated after an outbreak of chicken pox.

Health bosses said a member of staff and a visitor at the flagship Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre had contracted the illness.

For babies with a low immunity, visiting has been restricted to people who are immune to chicken pox and as yet no infants have been found to have the virus.

Mrs Rineke Schram, director of infection prevention and control for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: ?Additional infection control procedures have been put in place within the neonatal intensive care unit after it was identified that a staff member and a visitor had developed chicken pox. No babies have shown symptoms of having the virus, and the unit remains open...
 
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