State No Longer To Give Swine Flu Updates
218 New Cases Reported In Last Week
POSTED: 11:20 am HST June 24, 2009
UPDATED: 2:03 pm HST June 24, 2009
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HONOLULU -- The Hawaii Department of Health announced on Wednesday that it will no longer provide the public updates on the number of new cases of swine flu each week. Health officials said they are changing the department's focus from compiling numbers to trying to stop the spread of the virus. Investigators are overwhelmed trying to keep up with the cases and tracing people in contact with patients.Instead, the state's updates will be provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention each Friday.The state did announce that 218 new cases were found in the past week. That brings the total number of cases to 503 since the first case was confirmed on May 5.
Previous Stories:
- June 10, 2009: Hawaii Health Officials Report 83 New H1N1 Cases
- June 3, 2009: Health Officials Find 33 New H1N1 Oahu Cases
- May 29, 2009: 9 New H1N1 Cases Found On Oahu
- May 28, 2009: 2 New Oahu H1N1 Cases Found
- May 27, 2009: Health Officials Identify 13 More H1N1 Cases
- May 26, 2009: Hawaii Confirms 14 New H1N1 Cases
- May 22, 2009: Friday H1N1 Update: Officials Confirm 4 New Cases
- May 21, 2009: Number Of Hawaii Swine Flu Cases Climbs To 40
- May 20, 2009: 3 New Swine Flu Cases Confirmed; Total 33
- May 19, 2009: 4 New H1N1 Flu Cases Reported
- May 15, 2009: Children Make Up 6 Latest H1N1 Flu Cases
- May 14, 2009: Officials Confirm 5 More H1N1 Cases; 4 Students
- May 14, 2009: 2 Swine Flu Cases At Palolo School
- May 5, 2009: State Confirms 3 Swine Flu Cases
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