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Virus sweeps through hospital cancer wards - The Local

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:01 AM EST
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health, cancer, germany, deaths, hospital, virus, oncology, heidelberg, alfred-wegener-institute
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A normally harmless virus has infiltrated the oncology department at Heidelberg University's hospital, infecting 19 severely ill patients and possibly leading to three deaths. Health authorities are searching for the source of the outbreak.

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Since the beginning of 2012 a wave of Human respiratory syncytial virus (RS-virus) has been coursing through three different cancer wards in the Baden-Würrtemburg hospital. Officials have not yet identified the source of the infection, which rarely leads to fatalities in health people. (...)

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