How many cases of Swine Flu have been reported in Ventura County?”
County confirms two cases of the swine flu: Two schools close after Oxnard boys diagnosed. Ventura County has its first two confirmed cases of swine flu, according to the Ventura County Public Health Department. Sheila Murphy, Public Health Department spokeswoman, confirmed late Wednesday night that a 9-year-old and a 13-year-old, both Oxnard boys, have both tested positive for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. The schools the boys attend will be closed today, Murphy said. The 9-year-old boy attends Art Haycox Elementary and the 13-year-old boy goes to Blackstock Junior High School, both in the Hueneme School District. It was not immediately known how the boys contracted the virus. Murphy did not know where the 9-year-old was tested, but the 13-year-old came into the Maravilla branch of the Clinicas del Camino Real healthcare facility in Oxnard, according to Clincas CEO Roberto Juarez. Clinicas has nine facilities in Ventura County. Juarez said Dr. Bob Levin, medical director for county Pu
The new tally includes 10 new cases in South Carolina, 50 cases in New York, 14 in California and one or two cases in each of eight other states. That total does not include newly reported cases in Minnesota, Nebraska, Delaware, New Jersey, Colorado and Georgia and an infected Marine at the Twentynine Palms base, bringing the U.S. total to 130 as of noon. “There are many more states with suspected cases,” said Dr. Richard E. Besser, the CDC’s acting director. At least 28 suspected cases have been identified in California, including four in Riverside, two in Los Angeles County and two in Ventura County. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-swine-flu1-2009may01,0,6489412.story Two boys from Oxnard — one 9, the other 13 — have become Ventura County’s first identified cases of swine flu, health officials said this morning. As a precaution, county Public
