Pandemic Flu on a local level

By Heather Niday | August 11, 2006

Sixteen people in Pocahontas County would die in a pandemic flu outbreak, according to the regional epidemiologist representing West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle.

Kim Kline broke down the pandemic flu problem for a room full of health and safety planners in our community Tuesday evening.

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Pocahontas Memorial Hospital preparing for a flu pandemic

By Heather Niday | May 8, 2006

As PMH Director of Nursing Kyna Moore puts it, in a community this size, if we lost one person to the flu, we would miss them. And if a flu pandemic does touch our community, it will take a community-wide effort to sustain ourselves. Kyna Moore talks about what the hospital and other community leaders are doing to get ready.

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