The United States experienced the beginnings of a
pandemic of a novel strain of the
Influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as "
swine flu", in the spring of
2009. The earliest reported cases in the US began
appearing in late March 2009 in California, then spreading to
infect people in Texas, New York, and other states by mid-April.
Early cases were associated with recent travel to Mexico, many were
students who had traveled to Mexico for Spring Break. This spread
continued across the country's population and by the end of May
there were approximately 0 confirmed cases throughout all 50
states.
On April 28, 2009, the director of the
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention confirmed the first official US death of
swine flu, a 23-month old toddler from Mexico who died on April 27
while visiting Texas.By June 24, 132 deaths had been attributed to
the virus.
Alabama

Alabama
As of July 21, 2009:
On May 2,
2009, the Alabama Department of Public Health confirmed the first
case of H1N1 (swine flu) in Madison, Alabama
, one of two probable cases previously identified at
an elementary school in Madison
.
As a
result, all public schools and most private schools and daycare
centers in Madison County, Alabama, including the cities of
Huntsville
and Madison
, closed for
two days. After meeting with the state public health officer
on May 3, 2009, all Madison city elementary schools were to be
closed through May 13, 2009, but were reopened after the CDC
updated its guidance to schools.
As of July 23, 2009, the Alabama Department of Public Health
reports 547 confirmed and nine probable cases of swine flu.
Alaska
On May 10, 2009, the Alaska state Division of Public Health
reported the state's first probable case of swine flu in a crew
member of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship traveling in Alaska waters.
On May 12, they confirmed that the individual had been infected
with swine flu but they do not consider it to be Alaska's first
case because she became ill before entering state waters.
As of July 22, 272 cases of swine flu were confirmed in Alaska.On
July 27, Alaska health officials confirmed the first H1N1-related
death.
Arizona
As of October 31, the Arizona Department of Health Services had
reported a total of 6,302 confirmed cases of H1N1 infection since
April 2009, with at least one case reported in each of the state's
15 counties. 786 of the cases had resulted in hospitalization of
the patient, and 81 deaths have been associated with H1N1 infection
in that period of time. Of the H1N1 associated deaths reported in
the state, 72% suffered an underlying medical condition (athsma,
lung or heart conditions, cancer, metabolic disorders, pregnancy,
immunosuprresive disorders, neurologic diseases or other chronic
diseases) at the time of death.
On April 28, the first cases of H1N1 influenza infection in Arizona
were confirmed in four school-aged patients in the
Phoenix metropolitan area. The
schools attended by the patients were immediately closed following
recommendations from the CDC; after only 3 days, however, local
authorities reopened the schools, stating that the H1N1 flu
appeared to be no more deadly than the seasonal flu. School
closures in the area have since been eliminated in favor of simply
sending the infected children home, resulting in slightly elevated
absence rates statewide. The first death in the state due to H1N1
swine flu complications was reported by the Maricopa County
Department of Public Health on May 14.
Arkansas

Arkansas
As of July 21, 2009:
As of July 16, 2009, the Arkansas Department of Health has reported
51 confirmed cases of swine flu. Four of the cases were from Camp
Robinson, a US Army National Guard base located in North Little
Rock in Pulaski County.
California
Deaths by county:
- Alameda - 23
- Berkeley City - 1
- Butte - 1
- Calaveras - 5
- Colusa - 0
- Contra Costa - 12
- El Dorado - 1
- Fresno - 18
- Glenn - 0
- Humboldt - 2
- Imperial - 1
- Inyo - 0
- Kern - 17
- Kings - 3
- Lake - 1
- Long Beach City - 3
- Los Angeles - 86
- Madera - 1
- Marin - 4
- Mendocino - 4
- Merced - 5
- Monterey - 2
- Napa - 1
- Nevada - 0
- Orange - 35
- Pasadena City - 0
- Placer - 3
- Redwood City - 0
- Riverside - 22
- Sacramento - 19
- San Benito - 1
- San Bernardino - 24
- San Diego - 45
- San Francisco - 7
- San Joaquin - 9
- San Luis Obispo - 1
- San Mateo - 7
- Santa Barbara - 3
- Santa Clara - 13
- Santa Cruz - 1
- Shasta - 2
- Sierra - 0
- Siskiyou - 0
- Solano - 5
- Sonoma - 10
- Stanislaus - 8
- Sutter - 0
- Tehama - 1
- Trinity - 1
- Tulare - 2
- Ventura - 2
- Yolo - 2
- Yuba - 2
- Total - 416

As of July 14, 2009:

CDC conference with the media on the
swine flu outbreak on April 25, 2009
The first
two cases detected in the US were two children living in San Diego
County
and Imperial County
(a county in which 18% of their residents are not
U.S. citizens),who became ill on March 28 and 30
respectively. A CDC alert concerning these two isolated cases was
reported in the media on April 21. As of April 24 eight human cases
were known in the US, including six in Southern California. The
patients have recovered. The acting director of the US
Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) said that preliminary tests on seven out of fourteen samples
from patients in Mexico had matched the virus found in the US,
which experts say is a new strain of swine flu. None of the US
patients had any contact with pigs, leading CDC officials to
believe that human-to-human transmission has been occurring.
Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and
the state of California activated the Joint Emergency Operations
Center of the
Department of Public
Health, and are coordinating with the California Emergency
Management Agency, the CDC, and the Mexican government. They have
additionally stepped up other preparations to lessen the flu's
threat. On April 28, Gov. Schwarzenegger declared a state of
emergency which allows the state to deploy additional resources to
the Department of Public Health and more quickly and easily
purchase equipment and materials.
St. Mels
Catholic School in Fair Oaks
was closed after Sacramento
County
Health Department notified the school that a 7th
grade student who reportedly recently returned from a family
vacation in Mexico tested positive for an unidentified strain of
Influenzavirus A. On April 27, CDC officials confirmed that
the student tested positive for swine flu.
In Marin
County
, a grandmother and her 20-month-old granddaughter
have been confirmed to have the flu. By April 28, the CDC
had confirmed 10 cases of swine flu in California.
California
State University, Long Beach
reported on April 29 that a student had returned a
"probable positive" test result for swine influenza. The
student showed symptoms on Sunday April 26 and went to the campus
health services office the following day. The test results were
received by the school on April 28 and distributed to all students
and faculty. The affected student had not attended any classes
since falling ill and has an apparently mild case of the disease
that does not appear life threatening.
Three high schools in
Riverside
County
were closed April 29 after two teenage girls, from
Corona
and Indio
respectively, were confirmed to have contracted the
virus. Branham High School
in San Jose
was closed that day for a week after one teenage
girl was confirmed to be a probable case. Rucker Elementary
School in Gilroy
is set to be closed on Friday, May 1 after at least
one student was being tested after exhibiting flu-like
symptoms. Three students at the Grizzly Youth Academy in San
Luis Obispo are confirmed cases of swine influenza. As many as 73
students are exhibiting flu-like symptoms at The Academy and are
assumed to have the virus. All are being isolated. The Academy is
set to stay open. On May 3, 2009, parent of students attending King
Middle School in Berkeley were notified that their school would be
closed down due to a swine flu outbreak involving students at the
school. Days later, other schools were closed down because of
students or staff exhibiting flu-like symptoms; for example,
Sunnyside Elementary School and Woodville Elementary School, both
in
Tulare County.
On June
1, 2009, the first two deaths were confirmed, one by a middle aged
man in San
Bernardino County
, and another one by a middle-aged woman in Los Angeles County. A third death
was confirmed on June 4, when a nine-year-old girl from
Contra Costa County died.
They were followed by
an Orange
County
man's death on June 8 and an middle-aged man's
death in Alameda County on June
9. As of June 9, there are 973 confirmed cases, 266 probable
cases, and 5 deaths caused by the H1N1 flu.
On Wednesday, June
10, another middle-aged man died in Alameda County, thus making it
the third death in the San Francisco Bay Area
.
On July 1
a woman who had been hospitalized in Marin
County
died of swine flu.
As of July 23, 2009, 2,655 cases and 61 deaths in California had
been confirmed.
A list of hospitalizations and deaths can be viewed at the
California Department of Health Website.
As of mid-September 2009, California now has 2655 cases and 152
deaths.
Colorado
On April
30 two cases of the flu virus were confirmed in the state of
Colorado
. The confirmed cases were a woman from
Arapahoe
County
who recently returned from a cruise to Mexico and a
Denver
International Airport
baggage handler. Two more H1N1
influenza cases were confirmed on May 2, both in Jefferson
County, Colorado
. One case is a middle school student, which
has caused the school he attends to close for a week.
The tally increased
to seven on May 4 when The University
of Colorado at Boulder
(CU) confirmed three of its students contracted the
virus.
There have been a total of 171 cases reported in Colorado as of
July 18.As of July 29, 2009 Colorado reported its first A(H1N1)
swine flu death in El Paso County of a woman in her 40,s.
Connecticut
On April
28, it was announced that there were suspected cases of swine flu
in three Connecticut
towns. Schools were closed due to suspected cases
in East
Haddam
and Wethersfield
, though tests on these patients later came back
negative. On April 30, two students at Fairfield
University
were announced as having "probable" swine flu, in
addition to another person in Glastonbury
, bringing the total number of likely cases to
6. On May 1, the first confirmed case of swine
flu was reported in Connecticut in Stratford
. On May 2, the second confirmed case was
reported in a child from Middlefield that had recently returned
from a family trip to Mexico. On May 5, Fairfield University
announced that two "probable" cases had tested positive for the
H1N1 flu, with five other "probable" cases awaiting test results.
One May 8, Fairfield announced that those five students had also
tested positive, although the students by that time were nearly
recovered, and there remained one "probable" case remained to be
confirmed.On Wednesday, June 3, The first death confirmed to be
linked to the H1N1 virus happened in New Haven County. As of
Wednesday, June 17 there are 7 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus at
Joseph A. Foran High School of Milford
. The school is following a half day schedule
until the end of the year, which was reported as being successful
for preventing the virus.
As of July 22, there were 1,713 confirmed cases of swine flu in
Connecticut. New Haven has the most of any town with 175
cases.
Delaware
The first probable cases of swine flu in Delaware were reported on
Monday, April 27.
Four probable cases of swine flu were
reported on the University of Delaware
campus after the students were experiencing flu
like symptoms. Tests were sent to the CDC to see if the
students had the swine flu. All four cases were confirmed by the
CDC on April 28. The students were reported to be recovering, and
the campus set up a temporary Public Health clinic. The Delaware
Division of Public Health reported on May 1 a further 17 probable
cases, all from the University.
As of July 24, the CDC has reported 381 cases for Delaware.
October 22, Kent Co. woman is Delaware's first H1N1-related
death.
District of Columbia
As of June 19, 2009, the DC Department of Health reported 43
confirmed and 2 probable cases of swine flu. The department website
has since not updated its case counts.
Florida
- Alachua - 7
- Baker - 1
- Brevard - 4
- Broward - 11
- Calhoun - 1
- Charlotte - 2
- Citrus - 1
- Clay - 1
- Dade - 32
- DeSoto - 1
- Duval - 13
- Escambia - 1
- Hernando 2
- Highlands 2
- Hillsborough - 12
- Indian River - 1
- Lake - 1
- Lee - 5
- Levy - 1
- Manatee - 2
- Monroe - 2
- Okaloosa - 2
- Orange - 12
- Osceola 1
- Palm Beach - 11
- Pasco - 2
- Pinellas - 11
- Polk - 6
- Putnam - 1
- Santa Rosa - 1
- Sarasota 4
- Seminole - 4
- St. Johns - 2
- St. Lucie - 6
- Sumter - 1
- Taylor 1
- Volusia 5
- Walton 1
- Total 174
On April
28, it was reported that an individual in Florida
had tested positive for influenza type A, of which
swine flu is a subtype. A culture from that person has been
sent to Jacksonville to be tested for swine flu, with results
expected within 48 hours.
Governor
Crist announced the first two confirmed cases in Florida on May
1.
The
cases are both children and in Lee
and Broward
counties.
On May 3,
the Hillsborough County
Health Department announced 5 possible cases of
H1N1, 4 of the persons are students, and the other is a relative
who has recently traveled to Mexico. Three public schools
(Wilson Middle School, Freedom High School, and Liberty Middle
School) where the students attended have been closed till May
11.
On May 7,
Alachua County
announced its first case of H1N1 (Swine Flu).
The person is a
University
of Florida
student and has since recovered.
On May 8,
a 7 year old boy tested positive of swine influenza in Rockledge
, Brevard County, Florida
. Two other children tested positive for
influenza. It caused Golfview Elementary School in Rockledge to
close on May 11.
On June 9, a 9 year old boy died of Swine Flu in Miami Dade On July
10, a woman died of H1n1 in
Palm Beach
County.
As of July 30, Florida has reported 3,221 cases of swine flu and
there is at least one in each of Florida's 67 counties.
Georgia
The first case of laboratory confirmed swine flu was reported on
April 30.
A Kentucky woman was hospitalized in
LaGrange
while visiting family in Georgia; she had recently
returned from a trip to Mexico. While Georgia health
officials reported this as a confirmed case for the state, the CDC
and the Kentucky health department reported it as a case in
Kentucky. In relation to this case, state officials said they had
no plans to close schools or other public institutions.
On May 4, the Georgia Department of Human Resources announced that
all classes have been temporarily suspended at
Eagle's Landing Christian
Academy in Henry County until the
CDC
confirms the status of a student who became ill. The Georgia Public
Health Laboratory sent three probable cases to the CDC over the
weekend for confirmation.
On May 5, the Georgia Division of Public
Health confirmed three cases of H1N1 located in Cobb
, DeKalb
and Henry
Counties.Swine flu has been confirmed on the
Georgia Tech and Agnes Scott College campuses.
The CDC has reported 222 cases of swine flu for Georgia as of July
24.
Hawaii
On May 4, 2009, the Hawaii Department of Health announced that
there were three suspected cases of swine flu in the state.
Governor
Linda Lingle announced that
the cases were mild and that the patients were recovering at home.
On May 5,
2009, all three cases were confirmed on the island of Oahu
by the
CDC. All three cases involve recent travel to the
mainland United
States
. One case is a school-age child, who recently
traveled to California
. The two other cases are a military member,
and his or her spouse. The military member traveled to Texas, and
has exposed their spouse.
Two more cases were confirmed on May 6. Another four were confirmed
on May 13, with two identified at Anuenue School, a
Hawaiian language immersion school.
In response to the
outbreak, the University of Hawaii at Manoa
announced that it will not be shaking graduates'
hands at its commencement.
On June 19, 2009, Hawaii confirmed its first swine flu-related
death, a 60-year old woman who had complications from the swine flu
who later died at Tripler Army Medical Center.
As of July 24, the CDC has reported 1,424 cases for Hawaii.
Idaho
On September 29, 2009, The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
confirmed that a Canyon County man in his 50s, with an already
existing medical condition, died from the H1N1 virus.
On Sunday, May 3, 2009, The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention confirmed the state's first swine flu infection for a
Kootenai County woman in her
60s.
A total of 488 cases have been confirmed in Idaho as of September
29, 2009, although most cases haven't been tested.
Illinois
The state's first probable case of swine flu was reported on
Wednesday, April 29.
An elementary school in Chicago
's Rogers Park neighborhood, on the city's Far North
Side, was closed because a 12-year-old student was presumed to have
the disease. The student reportedly was recovering at home.
By April 30, over 40 probable cases had been identified by state
and local health officials.
In addition to 16 cases in the city of
Chicago
, and 11 in surrounding Cook
County
, cases were reported in Kane
, Lake
, DuPage
, McHenry
, and Will
counties. Several schools in the affected
areas were temporarily closed.
Many other flu cases happened during or even
before the launch of the alert were then confirmed, principally in
the urban area of Chicago
. By May 20, the following 17 counties had
confirmed cases: Boone
, Cook
, DeKalb
, DuPage
, Franklin
, Kane
, Kankakee
, Kendall
, Knox
, Lake
, McDonough
, McHenry
, Ogle
, Sangamon
, Will
, Williamson
, and Winnebago
. Total confirmed cases in Illinois were
794, up from 707 the previous day.
Cases in Illinois throughout May 2009 continued to climb and by May
31, 2009 the published CDC numbers had reached 1002 confirmed cases
with 2 deaths. A third confirmed death – the first outside of the
Chicago metropolitan area – was reported by state health
authorities on May 28, 2009 but this was not reflected in the CDC
official numbers by the end of the month.
A total of 3,366 cases and 17 deaths have been confirmed in
Illinois as of July 24.
Indiana
On April
28, an unidentified Notre Dame
student was confirmed as the first case of
swine flu in this state. The patient had not recently
traveled to Mexico or been in contact with anyone who has traveled
to Mexico. The student was in voluntarily quarantine, and was doing
well, according to Judy Monroe, Indiana's state health
commissioner. Two other cases in the state which occurred in two
Indianapolis elementary schools were confirmed by the CDC shortly
thereafter. Additional cases later surfaced in the counties of
Hendricks, Lake, Marion, Putnam, St. Joseph, and Tippecanoe. On
July 10, 2009, a young teenager died of Swine Flu, this was the
first death in Indiana because of this disease.
As of July 24, the CDC has reported 291 cases of swine flu.
Iowa
On April
29, two probable case of swine flu were reported in Des Moines County and Clinton
County
. One was a woman from California
, the other one was a man from Mexico
.
On May 3,
another case was found in Marshall County
causing schools to close. On the week of
February 28, 2009, a three year old caught the swine flu due to
close contact with ill pigs, but not the same dangerous strain that
came from Mexico. In early May, cases climbed up to 43.
A few
were in Polk
County
, where Des
Moines
is.
As of July 24, 165 cases have been reported by the CDC.
In Iowa
City's Iowa City
High School
, there were over 400 students absent on Oct.
7th with suspected H1N1. The recent homecoming dance is credited
with causing this. The school's 9-day absence limit is also
believed to have influenced this, restricting sick students from
going home if they have already been absent 9 days. The school has
refused to close despite protests from parents, teachers and
students alike. On October 9, 32% of all students were absent out
of over 1,600. The school has continued to stay open despite
advisement by the Johnson County Health Department even as more and
more of the student population falls ill. There are serious
concerns of students passing along the virus to the community,
creating a large local outbreak. As of October 15 the school is
still open.
An Iowan
Cat has swine flu.
Kansas
Health officials in Kansas announced April 25 that two new cases of
swine flu had been confirmed in
Dickinson County, after both were
isolated. The week prior, one patient had traveled to Mexico by
plane to attend a professional conference; both he and his wife
experienced minor influenza symptoms.
As of July 24, 2009 there were 213 confirmed cases of swine flu in
Kansas, 101 in adults and 112 in children. However, in
Wyandotte and
Johnson counties the state had
instructed that only hospitalized patients needed to be tested so
the numbers were quite possibly higher. By June 30, 2009 there were
129 confirmed swine flu cases in Kansas.
Kentucky
A
Warren
County
woman who had recently visited Mexico tested
positive for the virus April 30. After returning to Kentucky
from Mexico, she traveled to Georgia where she was hospitalized.
Health officials from both states announced this as the first
confirmed case in their states, however the CDC listed the case in
Kentucky.
In Jefferson County, Meyzeek Middle school has three cases of H1N1
Influenza. This initially started from a staff member, but spread
to students.
- Counties in Kentucky with confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu:
- Adair- 1
- Allen- 1
- Anderson- 2
- Barren- 1
- Boone- 7+
- Boyle- 1
- Calloway- 1
- Daviess- 1
- Fayette- 14
- Fleming- 1
- Franklin- 3
- Grayson- 3
- Green- 1
- Hardin- 2
- Hopkins -1
- Jefferson- 69
- Kenton- 3+
- Knox- 1
- Laurel- 1
- Lincoln- 1
- Madison- 11
- Mercer- 4
- Montgomery- 1
- Muhlenberg- 1
- Oldham- 1
- Perry- 1
- Rockcastle- 1
- Scott- 14
- Shelby- 1
- Trigg- 1
- Warren- 6*
- Whitley- 1
- Woodford- 1
Total- 158
- + — One of these cases are confirmed by a local
health department.
- * — One of these cases was hospitalized in Georgia
but is a resident of this county.
Confirmation by various health departments-
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- 143
- Kentucky State Public Health Laboratory- 158
- Northern Kentucky Independent Health Department- 2
Louisiana
As of July 21, there are a total of 232 swine flu cases confirmed
by The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. Up from 114
reported on May 28.
According to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the
confirmed cases are broken down by parish as follows:
Maine
On April 29 three cases of H1N1 (swine flu) were confirmed in
Maine, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control.
The three
adults, two from Kennebec County
and one from York County
, were reported to be recovering at home.
Dr. Dora Anne Mills, director of Maine's CDC, said on April 28 that
at least 12 suspected cases were being tested.
Late on April 29, Maine
Governor John
Baldacci declared a "civil emergency" and ordered a school and
daycare facility in York County to close for 7 days.
As of July 22, there have been 282 cases confirmed throughout
Maine.as of november 26,1562 confirmed cases,97 hospitalized
cases,and 9 deaths have been reported in maine.also,172 schools
have reported outbreaks of h1n1 since may,according to dr dora anne
mills and the maine cdc.
Maryland
By May 1,
2009, eleven probable cases had been identified in Maryland, in
Anne
Arundel
, Baltimore, Charles
, Prince Georges
, and Montgomery
Counties. One of these cases, that of a high school
student in Rockville
, resulted in the closing of Rockville
High School
, the first Maryland school closing due to the
outbreak. On May 1, three other schools in the state were
closed. As of May 5, Rockville High School has reopened. Takoma
Park Middle School also began to take action due to a student
catching swine flu.
Four of Maryland's probable cases were
confirmed on May 4, including two adults and one child in Baltimore County as well as one
young child in Anne Arundel county
. There are 4 cases of swine flu in Worcester
County Public Schools in Maryland. In Washington County Public
School in northwest Maryland there is 17 Kids who have the swine
flu.
As of Fall 2009, there have been 954 confirmed cases in
Maryland.
In late September 2009 a 13-year-old Baltimore resident became the
first minor to die from swine flu in Maryland.
Massachusetts
There are
1,398 confirmed cases in Massachusetts
, 172 of which have led to hospitalizations.
The first
death from swine flu in Massachusetts occurred on June 14, 2009
when a 30-year-old Boston
woman died. Eleven deaths have been
confirmed as being caused by the H1N1 virus in total.
By County
- Barnstable County
- A member of the U.S.
Coast Guard stationed on Cape Cod
, acquired the virus while training in California,
but reportedly recovered.
- Bristol County
- The
Health Agent for the town of Easton
stated that there are "a couple of suspected cases
in town."
- The Mass. Dept. of Public Health announced that they had 1
confirmed case of the virus in the city of Fall River in
southeastern Massachusetts.
- Dukes County
- Martha's Vineyard Hospital treated five confirmed cases of
H1N1, two of which required hospitalization.
- Franklin County
- There is at least 1 confirmed case reported in the county.
- Middlesex County
- The
Massachusetts Department of Public Health informed the Ashland
school superintendent that two Ashland High School
students have "probable" cases of H1N1 flu.
- The CDC confirmed that an elementary school student in
Chelmsford tested positive for acquiring the virus.
- In
Cambridge
, there are 2 students (at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
) that are "probable" cases of having acquired the
virus.
- Eight
residents of Framingham
are being tested for being "probable"
cases.
- The Lincoln Public Schools Superintendent had confirmed a
Lincoln middle school student been diagnosed with the H1N1
virus.
- Two middle school students in Lowell have tested positive for
swine flu as of April 29, 2009. The two had gone on a family trip
to Mexico, and became mildly sick on returning home. The local
health department said that the boys had not returned to school
since coming back from Mexico, and there were no concerns that the
illness had been spread.
- In
Tyngsboro
, there had been 1 probable case reported at the
Academy of Notre Dame.
- There
is 1 suspected case of the virus in the city of Waltham
.
- Winchester
Hospital in Winchester
reported having received a possible case (of the
virus) within the town.
- There had been two additional confirmed cases, 1 of each
located in the municipalities of Bedford and Weston.
- In
Wayland
there has been one confirmed case at the elementary
school level and one possible case at the high school
level.
- Norfolk County
- The health inspector of Quincy confirmed that a New York
resident who checked into Quincy Medical Center on May 1, 2009, and
tested positive for the H1N1 flu.
- The
CDC confirmed that a resident of the Wellesley College
campus tested positive for the virus.
- The Dana Hall School in
Wellesley was closed after nearly 100 students called in sick.
- Plymouth County
- The CDC had announced 4 additional confirmed cases, from 2
adults and 2 school-age residents (of the state), from the
following counties: (3) Middlesex County and (1) Plymouth
County.
- Suffolk County
- Massachusetts' Secretary of Health and Human Services announced
that 'some' of the 34 confirmed cases in the state are from the
Harvard School of
Dental Medicine campus (at the Longwood Medical Area in
Boston), which is temporarily closed. Later, it was reported that 3
of the 9 reported cases of influenza at the school, resulted
positive for the H1N1 virus.
- On
May 1, 2009, a United Airlines
Flight 903 from Munich
to Washington D.C., was diverted to Logan
International Airport
in Boston. A 53-year old passenger complained of
flu-like symptoms, that led him to be admitted to Massachusetts General
Hospital
.
- A male passenger in his 40's complained of flu-like symptoms
upon landing at Logan International Airport in Boston May 2, 2009.
He was
flying aboard American Airlines
Flight 155, from London
to Boston, that had originated from Malaysia
. He, too, was admitted to Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston.
- The
Boston
University
Goldman School of Dental
Medicine reported a single resident that has a confirmed case
of the virus. They claim that he has had no contact with
anybody on the school's main campus, and those he has been in
contact with have been notified.
- Both
Boston
Latin
, where 250 called in sick, and the Winsor
School
, where 34 called in sick, and were
closed.
- Worcester County
- There is at least 1 confirmed case reported in the county.
- 'Other
- In
Spencer
, two students who also had recently returned
from Mexico were tested for possible swine flu infection.
The results of those tests were both negative.
Michigan
On April
29, a 34-year-old woman from Livingston County
was Michigan's first reported case of swine
flu. On April 30, another 34-year-old woman from
Ottawa
County
was confirmed as Michigan's second case.
As of June 13, Michigan reports 655 confirmed flu cases, and as of
July 23, nine deaths. The health department has since stopped
reporting cases but continues to update deaths.
The
first death in Michigan was of a 53-year-old woman who lived in
Warren
and had other under-lying health
problems. The second Michigan death occurred in
Roscommon County
.
As of August 10, 2009, ten deaths have been reported in Michigan
due to the H1N1 virus. Michigan has stopped keeping a running tally
of confirmed cases.
On October 28, 2009 157 schools in Michigan were closed due to the
swine flu.
Minnesota
On April 30, 2009, the Minnesota Department of Health announced
that the first case of "H1N1 novel influenza virus" in the state
was confirmed by the
CDC.
The infected
individual is an unidentified resident of Cold
Spring, Minnesota
. Two schools in the affected city will
remain closed until May 6, 2009.
On May 4, 2009 the second case of H1N1 was confirmed in Minnesota
by the Minnesota Department of Health. The case was reported in a
teen boy attending a Minneapolis Public School.
A Minneapolis five year old girl had succumbed to the flu during
the week of June 8.
As of July 23, 684 cases and three deaths have been reported.
Missouri
In
Missouri
, Gov.
Jay Nixon announced in a written statement that a
probable case had been discovered in a Platte
County
man, and that a sample had been sent to the CDC
for confirmation.
As of May 8, 2009, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior
Services (DHSS) reported 10 confirmed and 4 probable cases of swine
flu.
On May 19, 2009, a St. Louis County man became the first death in
Missouri due to the Swine Flu.
On May 21, 2009, St. Louis Public School District announced one of
its students had the Swine Flu but has not been in class since May
15.
In St. Charles Missouri it was also found that a student from St.
Charles High School who traveled to Mexico City was found infected
with swine flu. The student who just came back from Mexico City was
in school for a week than kicked out and brought back.
On June
11, 2009, a teenager from New Bloomfield (11 miles north of the
Jefferson City
) in Callaway County
became the 50th confirmed case of H1N1 in
Missouri.
On June
20, 2009, about 20 to 30 campers at a Lake of the Ozarks
summer camp in Morgan
County
reported having mild flu-like symptoms, of
which two cases were confirmed to be H1N1. The camp was
closed down for a week.
Another
summer camp in Stone County
near Branson
reported at least 15 campers who have tested
positive for the flu in preliminary tests on June 24.
The
preliminary resluts were possibly sent to a lab in neighboring
Taney
County
as local reporters attempted to dispute or deny
that any flu cases were reported in Taney County by going
as far as to cite that the Taney County Health Department found
zero cases of the flu. Official results from the DHSS
confirm the camp had five campers with H1N1, but that all the
campers were from out of state.
Reports from Adair, Buchanan, and Jefferson County were added on
June 25 to DHSS's list of confirmed cases, bringing the count to 58
cases. These reports may be based on where people with H1N1 are
from rather than where it was located in relation to the H1N1 cases
reported at summer camps.
The
youngest case of H1N1 was confirmed by DHSS in Cole
County
on June 25, 2009. An infant was reported
with having Flu-like symtoms which was confirmed by DHSS.
As of July 23, there have been 80 cases in Missouri.
Adding to the latest
cases are two children from Springfield
.
As of July 31, there have been 86 cases.
Clay
and Moniteau
Counties were added to the list of counties with
confirmed cases.
As of August 8, there have been 158 confirmed cases in
Missouri.
On August 15, a 5 year old boy from
St. Francis County checked into
the hospital with H1N1it is 11 cases in sharkey county and 20 cases
in warren county
As of September 5, there have been 37 suspected cases of H1N1 at
Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO.
Mississippi
The Mississippi State Department of Health continues to monitor and
investigate human cases of a new type of influenza, H1N1 swine
influenza (also known as "novel H1N1 influenza") now present in
Mississippi. Symptoms of swine flu in humans are similar to those
of seasonal flu, causing fever, respiratory symptoms and body
aches. H1N1 swine flu has contributed to a number of deaths
nationwide, principally in those with pre-existing health
conditions. 898 Mississippi cases of H1N1 swine flu have been
identified and 7 deaths since May 15. Mississippians are advised to
continue to exercise protective hygiene to avoid illness.
Montana
On May 11, 2009, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human
Services (DPHHH) reported the state's first confirmed case of swine
flu. As of July 26, there have been 122 reported cases.
Nebraska
As of July 26, 2009, there are 313 confirmed cases of swine flu in
Nebraska. Nebraska has recorded sixteen hospitalizations and three
death.
Nevada

As of July 23, 2009:
The first confirmed case of the virus was reported in Nevada on
April 29.
A two year-old girl from Reno
contracted
the virus, but it is unclear how as the case did not appear to be
linked to any previously affected areas. As of recent the
virus has spread to Clark County, where the city of Las Vegas lies.
It has also resulted in the closing of Mendive Middle School in
Sparks, Reno's neighboring city, where ten students were confirmed
to have contracted the virus.
Through
October 14, 2009 there had been 229 confirmed cases and 12 deaths
in Clark
County, Nevada
, 964 confirmed cases and 2 deaths in Washoe
County, Nevada
, 265 confirmed cases and 0 deaths in Carson
City, Nevada
, and 431 confirmed cases and 1 death in the state's
remaining 14 counties, totaling in 1871 cases and 15
deaths.
New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announced
the state's first confirmed case of the H1N1 flu May 2, 2009.
The
confirmed case involves an employee of Concord Hospital in Concord,
New Hampshire
.
As of July 6, there have been 232 confirmed cases.
New Jersey
As of July 22, 2009, the New Jersey Government has confirmed 936
cases of swine flu and 480 probable cases, most of them within a
range of 30 minutes of New York or Philadelphia. More swine flu
cases are being reported daily, which has caused a widespread in
the state. Counties currently confirmed with swine flu: Atlantic
(20), Bergen (63), Burlington (64), Camden (35), Cape May (3),
Cumberland (17), Essex (105), Gloucester (12), Hudson (85),
Hunterdon(17), Mercer (47), Middlesex (115), Monmouth (60), Morris
(45), Ocean (48), Passaic (63), Salem (3), Somerset (37), Sussex
(13), Union (62), Warren (22), which indicates that currently 21
counties have confirmed cases of swine flu.
The first swine flu death in New Jersey occurred on June 13, 2009.
The man
who died was a 49-year-old resident of Essex
County
.
New Mexico

New Mexico
As of July 20, 2009:
On April 29, 2009, Gov.
Bill
Richardson announced that there are two very probable cases in
New
Mexico
. The suspected cases were a 1 year old boy
from Santa Fe
County
and an 18 year old man from Valencia County. The 1 year old
tested negative for H1N1, but the 18 year old man tested positive.
More cases were raised in the intervening days, and by May 1 the
probable case number was increased to nine.
In addition to the
cases above, a 17 year old girl from Eddy
County
, a 22 year old woman also from Eddy County, a 15
year old girl from Valencia County, a 17 Year old boy from Hidalgo
County
, and a 27 year old man from Bernalillo County are also likely to be
infected.
As of May 30, 2009, the New Mexico Department of Health has
confirmed 156 total cases of the H1N1 virus among humans in various
counties with the CDC reporting 232 cases. New Mexico has since
stopped reporting cases.
New York
- New York City - 66
- New York State - 72
- Total - 138
- New York City - 62
- Albany - 1
- Broome - 1
- Clinton - 1
- Erie - 3
- Genesse - 1
- Monroe - 1
- Nassau - 4
- Niagara - 2
- Oneida - 5
- Onondaga - 5
- Ontario - 2
- Orange - 2
- Passaic - 6
- Rensselaer - 1
- Saratoga - 1
- Suffolk - 8
- Tompkins - 1
- Ulster - 1
- Warren - 1
- Washington - 1
- Wayne - 1
- Westchester - 2
- Out of state - 1
- Total - 114
Introduction
On April
24, New York
City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene dispatched a team
of investigators to the private St.
Francis Preparatory School
in Queens
after 150 students complained of symptoms
consistent with the disease. Several of the students had recently
traveled to Mexico
City
. New York City Health Commissioner Dr.
Thomas Frieden reported on April 25 that eight of the New York
school cases were "probable" swine flu.
On April 26 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
confirmed that the Queens cases are indeed associated with the H1N1
virus. The students suffered only mild symptoms, and some have
since recovered.
On April 27 federal officials confirmed 20 new U.S. cases at the
same school in New York in which eight cases were confirmed
earlier.
As of April 29, one undergraduate commuter student on the Queens
Campus of St. John's University had contracted the Swine Flu
(A/H1N1) virus. The student was treated and recovered.
On May 14, three New York City public schools were closed due to
the flu symptoms of hundreds of students.
On May 17, Mitchell Wiener, the assistant principal at a Queens
school was confirmed as New York State's first death due to the
disease.
On May 24, a woman in her 50s died because of the disease and had
other health problems. She is New York State's second death and the
11th in the country.
On June 1 a child from the Bronx
became the first minor in New York City
to die of swine flu. On Wednesday, June
4, a man died in Onondaga County
, which marked the first fatality from swine flu in
New York outside of New York City.
A city health department poll suggested that more than half a
million citizens of New York may be infected as of June 11.
By June 17, 2009 there had been 30 Swine flu deaths in New
York.
As of July 24, the CDC has reported 2,738 confirmed cases of the
H1N1 flu.
By county and city
The first two deaths from swine flu in Orange County, New York were
announced on July 1, 2009.
Cornell
University
in Ithaca in Tompkins County had its first death
from swine flu on Sep. 12, 2009.
North Carolina
The state health director, Dr. Jeffrey Engel, announced that there
had been two probable cases of swine flu in the state. The first
case was a man traveling through
Wake
County, where the capital is located, on business. The other
case was an
Onslow County resident who
had recently traveled to Texas. On a related note, North Carolina
is one of 29 states that have deemed to have not stockpiled enough
flu medicines by federal guidelines. However, Dr. Engel dismissed
these concerns, saying, "I think the commercial supply will keep up
at the present time."
North Carolina has 483 confirmed cases as of July 22. There have
been six deaths confirmed in the state. The most famous victim of
swine flu was Elliott Wilson, a student at North Carolina State
University. He contracted the virus on September 10, 2009, and was
responsible for infecting 13% of the student population.
North Dakota
As of July 23, North Dakota has 63 confirmed cases of swine
flu.
Ohio
On April
26, the Ohio Department of Health reported that a nine-year-old boy
attending Elyria City
Schools in Elyria
, Lorain County
, had been diagnosed with a mild case of the new
strain of swine influenza and that his immediate family was
undergoing testing. After the confirmed case in Ohio and
eight in New York occurred Federal officials declared a public
health emergency.
The Cleveland
health department received numerous calls from
concerned residents the first week of the outbreak, although it has
been difficult to tell whether or not the cases are swine flu,
since it is regular flu season. On April 29, a
probable case was reported in Columbus
, and two new cases were confirmed in Columbus on
May 2, one of them being an employee of The Ohio
State University
Medical Center.
As of July 24, 2009 there were 186 confirmed cases of swine flu in
Ohio.
In September 2009, a 20 year old Columbus woman died from H1N1 a
week after having a c-section to give birth to her child at 32
weeks gestation.
As of October 9, 2009 a 14 year old boy was reported as Ohio's
first pediatric death.
Oklahoma
In
Muskogee
, Oklahoma
a man who recently visited Mexico
had been admitted into a hospital after having
H1N1 flu symptoms, but test results on May 1 returned
negative. On May 5, a woman from Pontotoc
County
was confirmed to have H1N1 flu, On May 7, Oklahoma
State Department of Health confirmed three new cases of the H1N1
virus: a child from Oklahoma County,
and one adult and a teenage female in Cleveland County
. All have recovered but, there has been one
death in the state so far. On July 20 it was confirmed that a
teenager in Tulsa had the swine flu.
As of July 22, there have been 203 cases reported.
Oregon

Confirmed as of July 24, 2009:
The
first probable case of H1N1 flu in Oregon
was announced on April 30 by the Oregon Department of Human
Services (ODHS). By May 3, three people had been tested
positive for swine flu. On May 22, the ODHS announced that 46% of
patients who tested positive for flu since March 4 were indeed
infected with H1N1 flu, with the rest having just a seasonal
flu.
H1N1 has been detected in 530 residents of Oregon as of July 24,
2009.
Confirmed cases have been found in 21 out
of 36 counties, including Benton County
, Clackamas County
, Clatsop County
, Columbia County
, Crook County
, Deschutes County
, Douglas County
, Hood River County
, Jackson County
, Klamath County
, Lane County
, Lincoln County
, Linn
County, Marion County
, Multnomah County
, Polk County
, Tillamook County
, Umatilla
County, Wasco
County
, Washington County
, and Yamhill County
.
On June 8, 2009, Oregon's first H1N1-related death in Marion County
was reported by the ODHS. Since then, five other deaths have been
reported; another two in Marion County (June 15, 2009 and July 24,
2009) and three in Multnomah County (June 26, 2009, July 3, 2009,
and July 17, 2009).
Pennsylvania

As of June 16, 2009:
On May 3, The Pennsylvania Department of Health said that a
31-year-old male in Montgomery County had the H1N1 flu.
By May 5
probable cases were under investigation in Philadelphia
(10), Bucks
(2), Chester
(2), Allegheny
(1), Cambria
(1), Franklin
(1), Lehigh
(1), Luzerne
(1), Lycoming
(1), Montgomery
(1), and York
(1) counties.
On June 4, a 55 year old woman in Berks County was confirmed as the
first death in Pennsylvania due to swine flu.
This was followed by
the deaths of a 26 year old Philadelphia woman with no known
underlying conditions on June 7, and a 48 year old woman in
Pike
County
on June 13.
Confirmed and probable case counts and deaths are updated daily at
the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
Rhode Island
On May 2, 2009, Rhode Island confirmed its first case of H1N1 Flu
in a Westerly woman. Rhode Island reported its first death from
swine flu on June 18.
As of August 26, 2009, the Rhode Island Department of Health has
reported 203 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu and two deaths.
South Carolina
On August 28, 2009 the
South
Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
(SCDHEC) announced it will begin the first full week of reporting
all laboratory confirmed influenza hospitalizations and deaths to
the
CDC
on September 8, 2009.
The S.C. Department of Health has reported 313 cases as of July 24
throughout the state.
Thirteen cases of the flu virus were confirmed in South Carolina on
April 30.
All 13 were students and/or parents from
the private Newberry Academy in Newberry, South Carolina
; many had traveled to Mexico earlier in the
month. All nearby public schools were closed for May
1.
On August 31, South Carolina recorded its first death from
Influenza A H1N1.The Byrnes Schools High School in Florence, SC
closed because of the H1N1 flu from September 23 to September
25.
South Dakota
As of July 24, South Dakota has confirmed 48 cases of swine flu and
hospitalized two patients.
Tennessee
As of July 22, there have been 282 confirmed cases of swine flu. On
July 15, the state reported its first death.On September 7, the
second death was reported in Memphis,TN
Texas
- Floyd - 1
- Lubbock - 4
- Baylor - 1
- Dallas - 21
- Ellis - 1
- Denton - 1
- Fisher - 1
- Kaufman - 1
- Parker - 1
- Rockwall - 1
- Tarrant - 8
- Angelina - 1
- Bowie - 1
- Lamar - 1
- Morris - 2
- Rusk - 1
- Smith - 3
- Upshur - 1
- Van Zandt - 1
- Brazoria - 2
- Fort Bend - 4
- Montgomery - 1
- Galveston - 2
- Harris - 24
- Jefferson - 1
- Orange - 1
- Bastrop - 1
- Bell - 2
- Brazos - 1
- Caldwell - 2
- Falls - 1
- Hays - 2
- McLennan - 1
- Travis - 6
- Williamson - 1
- Bexar - 10
- Gonzales - 1
- Guadalupe - 1
- Karnes - 1
- Maverick - 2
- Val Verde - 1
- Victoria - 2
- Andrews - 1
- El Paso - 15
- Cameron - 3
- Hidalgo - 20
- Jim Wells - 1
- Nueces - 9
- San Patrico - 2
- Starr - 2
- Webb - 1
- Nacogdoches - 2
- Brazos - 1
Total- 179
Texas has reported 4,998 cases and 27 deaths as of July 24. Of the
first 13 deaths confirmed in Texas, one was a Mexican
citizen.
Two students attending Byron P.
Steele II High School in Cibolo
were confirmed to have the A/H1N1 swine flu;
the patients recovered. A third possible case in a student
who attends the same high school as the two other cases in Texas
has been identified and the school is closed temporarily. On April
25, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) decided to
close Byron P. Steele II High School for the following week.
Following the discovery of more possible swine flu illnesses, the
DSHS ordered that all schools and district facilities in the
Schertz-Cibolo-Universal
City Independent School District be closed for the week.
On April
27, a 7-year-old, a 24-year-old, and a 3-month-old in Dallas
County
were confirmed to have swine flu. All
recovering and were not hospitalized.
That same day, the
Richardson
Independent School District in the northern Dallas
suburb of Richardson
shut down Canyon Creek Elementary School due to
a confirmed and two suspected cases of swine flu.
All
schools in New
Braunfels
—private schools and all campuses of the
Comal and New Braunfels
Independent School Districts—announced closures through May 10
on the recommendation of the Medical Authority of Comal
County
. On May 6, the
New Braunfels
Herald-Zeitung reported that all schools in Guadalupe and
Comal counties would reopen on Thursday, May 7, four days earlier
than had previously been announced.
Due to the swine flu, the
University Interscholastic
League (UIL) suspended all athletic, musical, and academic
competitions and games for primary and secondary public education
in the state of Texas until May 11.
On April
28, the City of
Houston
Health Department and Texas
Children's Hospital
sent samples in to the CDC. There are also
possible cases at the Baylor College of Medicine
outpatient clinic, Memorial Hermann Hospital, and
St. Luke's
Hospital.
A
23-month-old Mexican toddler who had been brought to Houston from
Brownsville
died on April 27, making the child the first US
death due to the outbreak. The child had traveled with his
family from Mexico to Brownsville to visit relatives. The infant
was admitted to a Brownsville hospital after becoming ill, then
transferred to Texas Children's Hospital the next day. The toddler
suffered from chronic muscle weakness, a heart defect, a swallowing
problem and lack of oxygen.
Texas Governor
Rick Perry issued a
disaster declaration.
On April
29, it was confirmed by Harris County
that a 17-year-old girl from Fort
Bend County
attending Episcopal High
School in Bellaire
had contracted and recovered from the A/H1N1
swine flu. In compliance with the directives of the Harris
County Public Health and Environmental Services Department, the
school has been closed until further notice. Also in Fort Worth, a
rising number of possible and confirmed cases in the district made
school officials close all schools starting the next day, April 30.
Schools in FWISD remained closed until May 8. The district was the
biggest in the nation to close resulting in 80,000 students out of
school and 11,000 staff members out of their jobs for that time.
During the next week 6 school districts in Dallas-Fort Worth shut
down. Including Cleburne, Lewisville, Decatur, Denton, Fort Worth,
and Ponder. Other schools in Plano, Dallas, and Richardson were
also closed, but did not result in a district wide shut down. Other
smaller districts also shut down.
Also that day, a probable case caused
the closure of Lucy Read Pre-Kindergarten Demonstration School in
north Austin
.
Denton
County
reported its first confirmed swine flu case
April 30, in a child in Plano
; the student attended Wilson Middle School in
the Plano Independent
School District, and the district decided to close the Collin
County
school until May 11. Navo Middle School and
Lee Elementary School, of
Denton Independent School
District were also closed after three students at both schools
respectively were diagnosed with type A influenza. As of May 2, the
rest of Denton ISD officially closed for the following week, but as
of May 5, all schools are officially reopening on May 7.
The
Superintendent of Keller Independent School
District in Keller
reported 3 possible cases, one in each of three
schools.
On April
30, 8 suspected cases were recognized in El Paso
County
. Lab samples have been sent to CDC. No
further information has been provided at this time until cases are
confirmed. At this time, international borders will remain open.The
El Paso Dept. of Public Health identified 11 more suspect cases of
H1N1 flu in El Paso County on Friday, May 1, to bring the total
number of suspect cases to 19. Lamar Consolidated ISD closed Lamar
Junior High School due to a suspected (probable) case.
Weslaco ISD closed all campuses for 7 days after
a student was confirmed to have contracted type A influenza.
On May
5, Judy Trunnell, a woman in her 30's suffering from "chronic
underlying health conditions" died of swine flu in Cameron
County
, near the US-Mexico border. She was the
first US citizen to die from the disease. The woman, a special
education teacher, had recently given birth to an eight-month-term
healthy baby, delivered by caesarian section. She had been in a
coma after being admitted to the hospital with breathing problems
on April 19. The woman had also suffered from asthma, rheumatoid
arthritis and a skin condition.
On August 28, a 52 year old woman with underlying health conditions
became the first death in Dallas County. Meanwhile, at TCU in Fort
Worth there is an outbreak of swine flu on the campus. On Monday
August 24, 10 students had possible cases of swine flu, by
Wednesday the number had jumped to 88. Students that are sick are
being asked to isolate themselves in the their dorm rooms. SMU and
UT at Arlington are also each reporting less than 5 cases of swine
flu each. This is all occurring as schools in the state of Texas
return to school.
On
October 14, it was confirmed, that Reality TV star Melissa Rycroft who lived in Newark,
New Jersey
over the summer and came back to Dallas has
swine flu.
Utah
On April 28, 2009, one student in Park City, Utah was suspected to
have swine flu. Two more studentsin the school district began
showing similar symptoms making three probable cases. All 8 schools
in the Park City School District closed the following day. On May 1
the number of probable cases was increased to 9; 6 in Summit County
(Park City), 2 in Salt Lake County and 1 in the Morgan-Weber Health
District and about 80 suspected cases. May 2 at around 11 o'clock
the first confirmation came back for the original case, 7 more were
confirmed by the 6th. On May 6 the probable case count was at 30.
As of June 11, Utah has reported 684 cases of swine flu and has not
updated since; however, the CDC has reported 988 cases as of July
24.
The first confirmed death from swine flu in Utah, of a 21 year old
man, was reported on May 20, 2009. On June 16, 2009, the number of
reported deaths from Swine flu in Utah reached six. All six deaths
had occurred in Salt Lake County. The state announced on June 17
two more deaths from swine flu, one of which occurred at an
unspecified location outside of Salt Lake County, the other in Salt
Lake County. Utah has reported 21 deaths as of October 15,
2009.
New reports available from Utah's health department as of October
28, 2009 indicated there had been 30 deaths from H1N1 in Utah, 18
through Aug. 31, 2009 and a further 12 since that time.
On November 18th, 2009 the Utah State Health department reported
five more deaths from swine flu.
Vermont
The Vermont Department of Health announced a probable case of the
H1N1 virus in rural Orleans County. A second case of the flu was
confirmed involving an adult in Windsor County.
As of July 22, there have been 62 laboratory confirmed cases.
Virginia
The Virginia Department of Health had confirmed 14 cases in the
state by May 7, and a total of 23 by May 21. The VDH reports cases
by Health district, often without narrowing down a specific county,
citing
HIPAA privacy laws, as well as a desire
to avoid creating a "false sense of security".
12 of the cases have
been reported for the district containing Lexington, Virginia
, following an early outbreak on the campus of
Washington and Lee
University
. Additionally, there have been three
cases in Fairfax, two each in the Chesterfield, Arlington and
Peninsula Health districts, and one each in the Norfolk and Three
Rivers Health districts.
As of
July 10, 2009, 5:00 PM ET, Virginia Dept of Health has reported a
total of 310 confirmed cases, a breakdown by Health Districts
-
Virginia Confirmed Cases of Novel Influenza A (H1N1):
- Alexandria 15
- Alleghany 4
- Arlington 15
- Central Shenandoah 16
- Central Virginia 7
- Chesapeake 11
- Chesterfield 9
- Chickahominy 3
- Crater 4
- Eastern Shore 4
- Fairfax 64
- Hampton 2
- Henrico 11
- Lord Fairfax 7
- Loudoun 15
- Mount Rogers 1
- New River 2
- Norfolk 3
- Peninsula 17
- Piedmont 2
- Pittsylvania-Danville 1
- Prince William 38
- Rappahannock 9
- Rappahannock Rapidan 5
- Richmond 4
- Roanoke 2
- Southside 5
- Thomas Jefferson 8
- Three Rivers 6
- Virginia Beach 14
- West Piedmont 3
- Western Tidewater 3
- Total 310
Washington
As of October 16, 2009, the WSDOH reported 174 hospitalizations and
16 deaths between April 26, 2009 and September 19, 2009, and
further reported 7 additional deaths and 163 additional
hospitalizations from September 19, 2009 to October 16, 2009. All
the recent fatal cases and the cases resulting in hospitalizations
were spread fairly equally across Western and Eastern
Washington.
As of September 9, 2009, the
Washington State
Department of Health (WSDOH) reported 164 hospitalized persons
confirmed with 2009 H1N1, and 16 total deaths.
In its August 28, 2009 report, the WSDOH reported that it would no
longer issue updates of the numbers of probable or confirmed cases,
but would instead issue reports of state lab-confirmed H1N1 (swine
flu) total hospitalizations and deaths. Accordingly, the WSDOH
reports that from 4/26/09 to 8/28/09 the total number of
hospitalizations was 154, and as of 8/28/09 the total number of
deaths stood at 14.
Deaths
On June 18, 2009, A King County swine flu-related death was
reported, making it the third death from swine flu in Washington
State.
On June 5, A Pierce County Woman in her 20s became Washington's
second swine flu-related death.
On May 9, it was announced that a man from Snohomish County, in his
thirties with a pre-existing heart condition and active viral
pneumonia, became the third confirmed U.S.
death from swine flu-involved complications.
Cases
On July 1, 2009, it was reported that the Tri-Cities had its first
case of swine flu.
On June 18, 2009, Grant
County
Heath Department reported six cases of swine
flu in Quincy
.
As of the evening of May 22, 2009, Washington state has reported
574 confirmed cases and one death due to swine flu. The health
department has since no longer reported anymore cases; however, it
has reported seven deaths as of July 24.So far, confirmed cases
have been identified in seventeen Washington state counties, with
public facilities closed as a precaution in those counties and
several others. On May 3, Seattle-King County officials announced
that, due to the virus' widespread presence in the community and
low rates of severity, schools would no longer be closing due to
suspect or probable cases.
A
majority of confirmed cases (584) have occurred in King
County
. 115 confirmed cases, one probable case, and
one death have been reported in Snohomish County
. Thirty-one confirmed cases have also been
identified in Pierce County
, while seven cases of swine flu have been
confirmed in Clark County
, bordering the city of Portland, Oregon
.
Thurston
County
and Yakima County
have reported five cases each.
Spokane
County
and Whatcom County
have reported four cases each.
Kitsap
County
and Mason County
have each reported three cases.
Two
cases have been reported in Island County
and Skagit County
. One case each has been reported in Douglas
County
, Grays Harbor County
, Jefferson County
, Kittitas County
and Lewis County
. An additional case, that of a cruise
ship worker, is counted at the state level only.
West Virginia
As of July 22, there have been 276 reported cases.
Wisconsin
As of July 22, 2009, Wisconsin has 5,147 confirmed cases, including
3,278 in Milwaukee. most of which are in the southern and
south-eastern region of the state. So far, cases have been
confirmed in 24 counties, however Milwaukee, Dane, Waukesha, and
Columbia have the majority of the cases, with 706, 90, 54, and 52
respectively. As of May 24, 2009, Wisconsin currently has the most
confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States. On June 1, 2009,
it was confirmed that a Milwaukee resident with underlying health
issues died from the virus. Two Wisconsin residents have died from
the virus.
As of Friday June 12, 2009 there were 3,008 confirmed and probable
cases and one death in Wisconsin reported by the CDC.As of Friday
June 19, 2009 the CDC reported no change of these numbers.
Milwaukee
As of
Friday June 12, 2009 the largest city in Wisconsin, Milwaukee
, reported the second death and 1,883 confirmed
cases of swine flu.As of Tuesday June 16, 2009 the city of
Milwaukee reported the third death related to the novel flu and
more than 2,000 confirmed cases in Milwaukee.
As of Thursday June 18, 2009 Milwaukee reported 2,618 confirmed
cases. The CDC update seems not to reflect the rising of case toll
from 1,883 (June 12) to 2,618 (June 18) in the city of
Milwaukee.
Dane County
Dane County reported 300 confirmed cases
as of Thursday June 18, 2009.
Columbia County
Columbia
County
reported 68 confirmed cases as of June 5,
2009.
Wyoming
As of August 27, 2009, the
Wyoming Department of Health
reported 171 lab-confirmed cases of H1N1.
On
August 19, 2009 the Wyoming Department of Health confirmed
Wyoming's first death from H1N1 of a state resident infected with
the swine flu (novel H1N1) virus as a victim who was a young adult
female resident of Fremont County
with an underlying health condition associated
with higher risk of complications from influenza.
As of
July 21, there have been 106 confirmed cases of swine flu in
Wyoming
.
See also
References
External links
State governments