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Flu outbreak felt in Kentucky hospitals, workplaces

The statewide flu outbreak has become bad enough to prompt a central Kentucky hospital complex to place temporary restrictions on visiting patients, while health care workers brace for the coming weeks when influenza usually hits its peak.

By Bruce Schreiner | Updated on January 15, 2013

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The statewide flu outbreak has become bad enough to prompt a central Kentucky hospital complex to place temporary restrictions on visiting patients, while health care workers brace for the coming weeks when influenza usually hits its peak.

Responding to a flu level considered widespread in the Bluegrass state, University of Kentucky health care officials said Monday that no one under age 18 would be allowed to visit patients at UK Hospital, Kentucky Children’s Hospital and UK Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington.

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