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Flu Outbreak at Hollidaysburg Veterans Home

By: Charlotte Ames
Updated: January 14, 2013
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One building that houses  patients at the Hollidaysburg Veterans Home is under quarantine due to the flu outbreak.

The State Department of Military and Veterans Affairs says there are four confirmed cases of the flu at Arnold Hall,  so  patients and staff in that building are being kept away from other residents.
Visitation to Arnold Hall and travel by patients living at the building is now restricted.

State officials say residents and staff at Arnold Hall have all been offered the flu medicine Tamiflu as a preventive.

No new patients are being admitted to that building.

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