UK - Queen's stomach bug 'probably caused by norovirus'

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Queen's stomach bug 'probably caused by norovirus'

3 Mar 2013

The 86-year-old was rushed to hospital today suffering from gastroenteritis.

The Queen's stomach bug was most probably caused by the norovirus, an expert said today.

The 86-year-old was rushed to hospital today suffering from gastroenteritis.

She is expected to stay in the King Edward VII hospital for two days while she is treated.

Professor Christopher Hawkey, at the University of Nottingham's faculty of medicine and health sciences, said the winter vomiting virus was the most probable cause of her illness.

He said: "The likely cause with the Queen is the norovirus, the winter vomiting virus.

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Queen leaves hospital earlier than expected after making good recovery from stomach bug

The Queen has left hospital a day earlier than expected after making a good recovery from the stomach bug which has forced her to cancel her official engagements this week.

By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
2:45PM GMT 04 Mar 2013

Her Majesty, who will be 87 next month, spent less than 24 hours at the King Edward VII Hospital in London after falling ill at Windsor Castle on Sunday.

Buckingham Palace had suggested that she was likely to stay in hospital for "a couple of days" but the Queen emerged from the hospital at 2.43pm looking well and smiling broadly as she thanked staff and shook hands with a nurse.

Wearing a scarlet coat with a bow-shaped brooch, the Queen got into a waiting Bentley to return to Buckingham Palace.

Her treatment for gastroenteritis will have involved making sure she did not get dehydrated, possibly by drip-feeding fluids to the monarch.

Palace sources said she remained "in good spirits" but would still spend the rest of the week resting.

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Queen pulls out of more public engagements due to illness

Almost two weeks after she was first stricken by a stomach bug, the Queen has pulled out of more public engagements on Wednesday and Thursday because she has still not fought off the illness, Buckingham Palace announced.

By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
6:16PM GMT 12 Mar 2013

Her Majesty, who will be 87 next month, had been due to visit a technology park in east London on Wednesday with her son, the Duke of York, and was expected at a church service at the Guards Chapel near Buckingham Palace on Thursday.

The news will increase speculation about the state of the Queen?s health, but well-placed sources insisted the monarch is suffering from nothing more than a bout of gastroenteritis, pointing out that she is carrying on with a relatively normal workload away from public view.

In a statement issued just before 5pm, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said: ?The Queen continues to make a good recovery following her recent illness, and today she presented The Queen?s Gold Medal for Poetry and held a series of Audiences.

?However, regrettably, she will no longer attend the Tech City engagement planned for Wednesday, or the Soldiers? and Airmen?s Scriptures Association Service at the Guards Chapel on Thursday.

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