{"id":332577,"date":"2026-03-11T00:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332577\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:46:14","slug":"cork-university-hospital-locks-down-in-battle-against-contagious-viral-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332577\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork University Hospital locks down in battle against contagious viral outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cork University Hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e4a1de95-987b-4145-bc63-ba2c1c11b728.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cork University Hospital<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cork University Hospital is pleading with friends and family members of patients at the facility to stay away as it struggles to get a handle on a major viral outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The hospital has drastically increased visitor restrictions and has gone into lockdown, including securing its entrances, as it battles against what it calls \u201can unprecedented surge of norovirus (winter vomiting bug) across the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork University Hospital Cork University Hospital is pleading with friends and family members of patients at the facility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,6151,85,46,117913],"class_list":["post-332577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hse","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kevin-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}