Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Seasonal Flu: New Hampshire flu death toll rises to 16

January 15, 2013 10:16 AM
CONCORD — The number of flu-related deaths in New Hampshire has risen to 16 adults, a state health official said Tuesday.
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The state saw a total of 19 deaths reported in 2012.
So far this season there have been 40 institutional outbreaks; the majority occurring at nursing homes and long-term care facilities. The N.H. Public Health Laboratories has so far tested 408 specimens and 238 were positive for influenza
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Individuals younger than 12 will now be restricted from all areas of the hospital, unless they are being treated as a patient, according to Notis. The only exception are healthy siblings of newborns in the maternal child health unit.
Anyone with respiratory or flu-like illness is also asked to refrain from visiting patients at the hospital, she said.
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