jeudi 29 septembre 2011

100 hotel guests and staff hit in norovirus outbreak - Scotsman.com News

100 hotel guests and staff hit in norovirus outbreak - Scotsman.com News

100 hotel guests and staff hit in norovirus outbreak

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Published Date: 30 September 2011
GUESTS were told to stay in their rooms following a suspected outbreak of vomiting bug norovirus in a capital hotel.
About 100 guests and staff at the Edinburgh Marriott hotel in Glasgow Road are believed to have contracted the illness last week.

Health officials were called in to deal with the virus after guests showed symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea.

It is almost exactly a year since the chain was blighted by an outbreak of the same virus in its Glasgow hotel.

"We can confirm that last week some of our guests at Edinburgh Marriott were ill with norovirus," said a spokeswoman for the hotel chain. "As soon as we were made aware of the situation, we immediately involved National Health Service and implemented the appropriate protocols; which included reiterating our food safety and hotel hygiene protocols with all our employees, encouraging our guests to exercise vigilance and practise thorough hand-washing, and placing hand sanitisers on every floor."

She added: "Marriott takes hotel hygiene and cleanliness very seriously. The hotel is operating normally, and we have had no further confirmed cases of norovirus since last Saturday."

The illness, known as the winter vomiting bug, is acute, but symptoms usually last only between one and three days.

  • Last Updated: 29 September 2011 11:42 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh

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