In Kfar Saba, Israel, an influenza outbreak has claimed three elderly lives at Beit Balev Medical Center, where 47 patients and staff have tested positive — a sobering reminder that the most vulnerable among us face the greatest peril when seasonal illness arrives before society has prepared its defenses. The virus has come early this year, outpacing the vaccination campaign that might have offered protection, and it does so against the backdrop of a previous season that was already unusually severe. The deaths, though not yet confirmed as directly caused by influenza, speak to the fragile thr
Early flu outbreak kills 3 at Israeli nursing home as 47 test positive
Three elderly patients at the nursing facility died during the outbreak, though influenza was not confirmed as the primary cause of death.