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HUP Changes Visiting Policy Due to Swine Flu

By KAREN ARAIZA
Updated 6:49 AM EST, Wed, Oct 21, 2009

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The hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is changing its visitors' policy to help prevent the spreading the swine flu.

  Children under 16 will not be able to visit patients at HUP because they are most likely to spread illness, according to the CDC.
 
Hospital officials are also asking anyone who may have symptoms, not to visit anyone at the hospital.

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First Published: Oct 21, 2009 5:14 AM EST

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