NY: 5/5 00:24 entry: GOSHEN, N.Y. (CBS) ― A nursing home in the northern surburbs
is taking precautions after a worker is listed as a "probable" swine flu victim. The concern is she may have exposed frail, elderly patients to the virus. Valley View employee Warren Harris came to work Thursday and went straight to the nurse's office. "I'm feeling nauseous lately, the last few days," Harris told CBS 2 Sounds like the stomach flu, but with a probable case of swine flu at Valley View Center for Nursing, everyone is being cautious. "They're concerned. They're really, really concerned about it," said Valley View employee Donna Moore. Orange County officials confirm one of the center's 500 employees, a nursing assistant, is listed as a "probable" case of swine flu. Ten days ago, the nursing assistant returned to work here after a trip to Mexico. By last Saturday, she was down with the flu.
CA: 5/5 23:55 entry: A Palo Alto nursing facility continues to operate under quarantine after several patients had flu-like symptoms last week.Administrators at Lytton Gardens Senior Communities closed its 145-bed skilled nursing facility to outsiders Saturday morning in consultation with the county's health department, said skilled nursing administrator Linda Hibbs.Hibbs said she'd heard about a wave of flu passing through the community and decided to be cautious.
Only one additional patient has come down with a fever since the original cases, Hibbs said. Most of the original patients have recovered, she said.The quarantine will extend through at least Thursday, Hibbs said. Nursing home administrators will then evaluate the situation, and could extend the quarantine until Saturday because the flu virus' incubation period lasts several days.
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is taking precautions after a worker is listed as a "probable" swine flu victim. The concern is she may have exposed frail, elderly patients to the virus. Valley View employee Warren Harris came to work Thursday and went straight to the nurse's office. "I'm feeling nauseous lately, the last few days," Harris told CBS 2 Sounds like the stomach flu, but with a probable case of swine flu at Valley View Center for Nursing, everyone is being cautious. "They're concerned. They're really, really concerned about it," said Valley View employee Donna Moore. Orange County officials confirm one of the center's 500 employees, a nursing assistant, is listed as a "probable" case of swine flu. Ten days ago, the nursing assistant returned to work here after a trip to Mexico. By last Saturday, she was down with the flu.
CA: 5/5 23:55 entry: A Palo Alto nursing facility continues to operate under quarantine after several patients had flu-like symptoms last week.Administrators at Lytton Gardens Senior Communities closed its 145-bed skilled nursing facility to outsiders Saturday morning in consultation with the county's health department, said skilled nursing administrator Linda Hibbs.Hibbs said she'd heard about a wave of flu passing through the community and decided to be cautious.
Only one additional patient has come down with a fever since the original cases, Hibbs said. Most of the original patients have recovered, she said.The quarantine will extend through at least Thursday, Hibbs said. Nursing home administrators will then evaluate the situation, and could extend the quarantine until Saturday because the flu virus' incubation period lasts several days.
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