{"id":83303,"date":"2017-08-08T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ba8cb1ae22f80d9e0da84535891d329b"},"modified":"2017-08-11T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:48:27","slug":"news-story-norovirus-associated-with-the-world-athletics-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83303","title":{"rendered":"News story: Norovirus associated with the World Athletics Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Updated number of reported cases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"latest-update\">Latest update<\/h2>\n<p>Dr Deborah Turbitt, <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> London deputy director for health protection, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> has been notified of a confirmed outbreak of norovirus among people associated with the World Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n<p>We have so far been made aware of approximately 50 people reporting illness and 4 of these cases have been confirmed as norovirus by laboratory testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> has been working closely with the London 2017 organisers and venues to provide infection control advice to limit the spread of illness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"#noro\">Read more information about norovirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"previous-update\">Previous update<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"august-2017\">10 August 2017<\/h3>\n<p>Dr Deborah Turbitt, <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> London deputy director for health protection, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> has been notified of a confirmed outbreak of norovirus among people associated with the World Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n<p>We have so far been made aware of approximately 40 people reporting illness and 3 of these cases have been confirmed as norovirus by laboratory testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> has been working closely with the London 2017 organisers and  venues to provide infection control advice to limit the spread of illness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"august-2017-1\">8 August 2017<\/h3>\n<p>Dr Deborah Turbitt, <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> London deputy director for health protection, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> has been notified of a confirmed outbreak of norovirus among people associated with the World Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n<p>We have so far been made aware of approximately 30 people reporting illness and 2 of these cases have been confirmed as norovirus by laboratory testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> has been working closely with the London 2017 organisers and the hotel to provide infection control advice to limit the spread of illness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"noro\">Norovirus<\/h2>\n<p>Norovirus is often caught through close contact with someone carrying the virus or by touching contaminated surfaces or objects.<\/p>\n<p>Norovirus can be very unpleasant but is rarely serious. Most people make a full recovery within 1 or 2 days, without treatment. It is important that people with diarrhoea and vomiting drink plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration.<\/p>\n<p>More information about norovirus is available on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/Norovirus\/Pages\/Introduction.aspx\">NHS Choices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health England (PHE) statement about an outbreak of norovirus associated with the World Athletics Championships in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83382,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83303\/revisions\/83382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}