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Flu outbreak at care home sparks urgent issue of drugs
By Lisa Smyth
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Every resident in a Londonderry nursing home for vulnerable elderly people is being given flu prevention treatment in the wake of an outbreak of the virus.
So far, two residents have tested positive for flu, and visitors have been urged to stay away.
A spokeswoman from the Western Health & Social Care Trust, which owns Seymour Gardens Care Home, said both confirmed victims are being treated with Tamiflu.
The remainder of the residents at the 26-bed facility are also receiving the flu jab as a precautionary measure.
The two cases at the nursing home, which cares for people with dementia, come just weeks after the deaths of six people in a private nursing home in neighbouring Co Donegal ? all as a result of flu.
It emerged on Saturday that 11 residents of the home were being treated for a flu-like illness. Ten of them were given antibiotic treatment as a precautionary measure until tests could confirm the nature of their illness.
The trust spokeswoman said two of them were subsequently diagnosed as having flu although she did not provide details on the strain of the virus...
Flu outbreak at care home sparks urgent issue of drugs
By Lisa Smyth
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Every resident in a Londonderry nursing home for vulnerable elderly people is being given flu prevention treatment in the wake of an outbreak of the virus.
So far, two residents have tested positive for flu, and visitors have been urged to stay away.
A spokeswoman from the Western Health & Social Care Trust, which owns Seymour Gardens Care Home, said both confirmed victims are being treated with Tamiflu.
The remainder of the residents at the 26-bed facility are also receiving the flu jab as a precautionary measure.
The two cases at the nursing home, which cares for people with dementia, come just weeks after the deaths of six people in a private nursing home in neighbouring Co Donegal ? all as a result of flu.
It emerged on Saturday that 11 residents of the home were being treated for a flu-like illness. Ten of them were given antibiotic treatment as a precautionary measure until tests could confirm the nature of their illness.
The trust spokeswoman said two of them were subsequently diagnosed as having flu although she did not provide details on the strain of the virus...