Influenza

CDC to test flu strain that shut down Grand Island Veterans home

Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 3rd, 2002

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will test samples taken from Grand Island (Nebraska) Veterans Home residents after an outbreak of the flu there forced a quarantine.

Officials fear a new strain of the flu virus may be making the rounds in the home, since 98% of residents and 83% of staff had received a flu vaccine this year.

Staff members swabbed the noses of flu sufferers at the request of state epidemiologist Thomas Safranek with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, said Gerry Koepke, infection control coordinator with the veterans home.

The home's 340 residents were put under quarantine...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2002-04-03)

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