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A nursing home in Co Roscommon has ceased admissions following an outbreak of influenza.
Some 42 of the 76 residents at Drumderrig Private Nursing Home in Boyle have been affected by the virus. Two people have died at the nursing home since the outbreak began, but the HSE has not yet confirmed if the deaths were caused by the flu.
... http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0503/breaking47.html
Re: Co Roscommon: 42 sick 2 fatalities in ILI outbreak at nursing home
Re: Co Roscommon: 42 sick 2 fatalities in ILI outbreak at nursing home
THURSDAY, MAY 03, 2012
Two patients at a Roscommon nursing home have died following an outbreak of seasonal flu.
The Health Service Executive has confirmed that 42 of the 76 residents at Drumderrig Nursing Home in Boyle have been affected by an outbreak of influenza A-H3.
Re: Co Roscommon: 42 sick 2 fatalities in ILI outbreak at nursing home
Re: Co Roscommon: 42 sick 2 fatalities in ILI outbreak at nursing home
irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 13:10
Nursing home flu outbreak over
FIONA GARTLAND
An outbreak of influenza that infected over 40 residents at a nursing home in Roscommon and killed two has been declared over.
The residents, at Drumderrig Nursing Home in Boyle, had contracted the A H3 strain of the flu virus, the same strain that was responsible for the deaths of seven residents at Nazareth House nursing home near Buncrana, Co Donegal, earlier this year.
Drumderrig, which has 76 residents, had temporarily stopped accepting new admissions and visitor restrictions were put in place when the outbreak began last month.
The Irish Times - Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Too few night staff at care home with flu deaths, says Hiqa
FIONA GARTLAND
A REPORT by the the Health Information and Quality Authority into an outbreak of flu at a Co Roscommon nursing home that claimed at least three lives found night staffing levels were ?insufficient to provide care? for the 76 residents.
The report also says records showed the residents at Drumderrig Nursing Home in Boyle had received the flu vaccine.
The outbreak had followed the deaths of seven residents at Nazareth House nursing home near Buncrana, Co Donegal. The residents there had also contracted the condition after having had the flu vaccine...
