Other Human Disease -- Australia
Staff and patients at a far north Queensland hospital are showing symptoms of a respiratory illness, less than 2 months after an outbreak that coincided with the deaths of 7 elderly people. The Herberton Hospital, near Cairns, has stopped taking new admissions pending test results from 3 staff and 3 patients.
The aged-care facility was investigated by the state's chief health officer after 7 patients died amid an outbreak of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) earlier in the year [2016]. Only one
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