By Tom Rosenthal
An outbreak of adenovirus 7 has taken the lives of seven children while infecting 11 other pediatric residents at a northern New Jersey rehabilitation facility, according to a state health official.
“Unfortunately, the particular strain of adenovirus [7] in this outbreak is affecting medically fragile children with severely compromised immune systems,” Nicole Kirgan, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey Department of Health, said in a statement. “The strain has been