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Outbreak of flu at Southgate nursing home
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
A NURSING home has been closed to visitors after a flu outbreak left seven residents needing hospital treatment.
Two residents at Oakhurst Grange Nursing Home, in Goffs Park Road, Southgate, are also known to have died in the past fortnight but Bupa, which runs the home, and the Health Protection Agency are refusing to say whether the outbreak was the cause of their deaths...
...Laboratory test results have confirmed the presence of Influenza A, otherwise known as seasonal flu.
A preliminary inspection at the 120-room home was carried out by NHS Sussex. Staff then got in contact with the Health Protection Agency on March 8...
At that point five residents were in hospital, and a further two have received hospital treatment since...
Outbreak of flu at Southgate nursing home
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
A NURSING home has been closed to visitors after a flu outbreak left seven residents needing hospital treatment.
Two residents at Oakhurst Grange Nursing Home, in Goffs Park Road, Southgate, are also known to have died in the past fortnight but Bupa, which runs the home, and the Health Protection Agency are refusing to say whether the outbreak was the cause of their deaths...
...Laboratory test results have confirmed the presence of Influenza A, otherwise known as seasonal flu.
A preliminary inspection at the 120-room home was carried out by NHS Sussex. Staff then got in contact with the Health Protection Agency on March 8...
At that point five residents were in hospital, and a further two have received hospital treatment since...