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Just because it?s hot outside, doesn?t mean there is no danger from the flu, Steve Todd, health officer of the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency (CHA) warned during a recent Hillsdale meeting of the tri-county health department. He said 41 residents of a St. Joseph County nursing home came down with the flu at the end of May.
About 80 nursing home staff members were offered does of the antiviral Tamiflu, which the agency had on-hand from the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, he said. Doctors were warned to be on the lookout for the flu and, by the second week of June, it had not spread.
?The nursing home was back to normal,? he said.
Because the residents? temperatures and symptoms were checked regularly, the outbreak was quickly picked up. The source has not determined, but officials say it was one of the active strains reported to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) earlier this year.
The antiviral was given the employees to prevent them from taking the virus outside the facility into the community.
About 80 nursing home staff members were offered does of the antiviral Tamiflu, which the agency had on-hand from the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, he said. Doctors were warned to be on the lookout for the flu and, by the second week of June, it had not spread.
?The nursing home was back to normal,? he said.
Because the residents? temperatures and symptoms were checked regularly, the outbreak was quickly picked up. The source has not determined, but officials say it was one of the active strains reported to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) earlier this year.
The antiviral was given the employees to prevent them from taking the virus outside the facility into the community.
