Fifteen residents and five staff members at a local nursing home were hit with a Norwalk-like virus just one month after a similar infection was reported in November, according to a monthly communicable disease report provided by the county’s health officials.
Outside of the viral outbreak, the county’s level of communicable diseases was not out of the ordinary for this time of year, according to the November 2005 report by the San Mateo County Health Services Agency.
An undisclosed nursing home reported a gastrointestinal outbreak that later tested positive as a Norwalk-like virus. A communicable disease team, consisting of an epidemiologist and two public health nurses, visited the premises and recommended ways to prevent future transfer and allowed the facility to re-open for admissions.
Health officials did not disclose which facility had the outbreak. In mid-October, a nursing home reported 20 residents and six staff members infected with a Norwalk-like virus.
Norwalk-like viruses, which are often food-borne, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and cramping. The immunosupressed and elderly are particularly vulnerable but infected people usually recover in two to three days.
During the same month, 127 cases of chlamydia were reported elsewhere in the county, bringing the yearly total to 1,446. Antibiotic resistant organism reports numbered 86 in November, for a total of 777 cases in 2005. Twenty-nine gases of gonorrhea were reported, for a total of 241 this year and three cases each of salmonella and tuberculosis were reported. In contrast, October saw 11 cases of salmonella.
For the year, 69 cases of whooping cough were reported in San Mateo County but none occurred during the month of November.
Michelle Durand can be reached by e-mail: michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 102. What do you think of this story? Send a letter to the editor: letters@smdailyjournal.com.
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