Seventh resident of Donegal nursing home dies from flu

irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Sunday, Apr 8, 2012, 15:01FIONA GARTLAND as well as KITTY HOLLANDA seventh resident from a nursing home in Donegal has died from flu today, a HSE has said.The aged resident, who had been living in Nazareth House private nursing home, Fahan, near Buncrana, died at Letterkenny General Hospital.The HSE pronounced it is closely monitoring 7 residents at a home who had been diagnosed with a condition as well as five were showing "definite signs of improvement".Another aged patient died on Friday, but which death was not thought to be part of a flu outbreak.Over a past fortnight, in between Mar 22nd as well as Apr 2nd, six alternative people ? aged in their 80s as well as 90s ? died at a nursing home as a result of a outbreak. The most recent death was certified by a family GP.No means of death has been released publicly but HSE North West pronounced on Friday it was of a perspective which this death was ?not related to a current outbreak?.It is reported which up to 14 residents in a care home have influenza as well as they have been segregated from alternative residents.Since a outbreak, residents at a home, which is run by a religious congregation a Sisters of Nazareth, have perceived anti-viral treatments.A HSE North West mouthpiece pronounced its public health team, including doctors, nurses as well as surveillance scientists, continued to closely conduct as well as monitor a situation.The health senior manager reiterated its advice that, while flu was usually a relatively mild infection, it could be a very serious illness among a aged as well as was a common means of death in older people.?People should be wakeful of a simple measures they can take to reduce a risk of infection. These include covering your nose as well as mouth with a tissue when you cough as well as sneeze, disposing of a tissue as shortly as possible as well as washing your hands with soap as well as H2O as shortly as you can afterwards.?A mouthpiece pronounced people visiting older residents of nursing homes ? including healthcare staff ? should ensure their influenza vaccinations were up to date.A Health Information as well as Quality Authority inspection group visited a home this week but declined to contend when it would publish its report.The authority was called in to a nursing home when a GP notified a HSE about a flu conflict on Apr 1st, after five people had died over a reduced period.A report earlier this week from a European Centre for Disease Prevention as well as Control pronounced that, during February as well as Mar this year, a number of older people failing of a influenza A (H3N2) pathogen had been greater than expected across Europe.Doctors have suggested a return of H3N2 this year has had an stroke on older patients, who sometimes react badly to a flu vaccine. The H3 strain enclosed in a seasonal vaccine given to at- risk people given last September is an imperfect match for a strain of a pathogen currently infecting patients. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc

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