Influenza

Nursing homes cautious during flu season

Published in Vaccine Weekly, January 14th, 2004

A brightly colored sign flanked by holiday decorations tells visitors at the front door of the Maple Crest Care Center in Omaha, Nebraska: If you have flu-like symptoms, please do not come any farther.

None of the 134 residents in the nursing home has been hit with the flu, and administrator Mary Stroud wants it to stay that way, especially during the holidays.

"This is our critical time because we have so many people coming in, but if we take the right precautions and people use common sense, we hope it will continue to go as well as it has," Stroud said.

Like many nursing homes across the country, Maple Crest has taken...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2004-01-14)

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