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February 18, 2008

4 deaths at Nantucket nursing home linked to virus

NANTUCKET -- Four recent deaths at a Nantucket nursing home are being blamed on a respiratory virus typically found at day care centers.

The patients ranged in age from 71 to 96. They died over the span of a week, with the last death occurring Feb. 10, according to the Cape Cod Times.

Officials at Our Island Home nursing home say the virus is the most common cause of pneumonia among infants and children under 1, and is rarely found in nursing homes.

The nursing home's administrator Pamela Meriam said the virus has been contained and no more patients have been infected.

-- The Associated Press

Posted by Jack Perry  at 7:05 AM | Permalink

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