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
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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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