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MEDIA RELEASE The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a another diagnostic test for the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, whose spread has caused the virus to be characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The EUA for the Focus Diagnostics Influenza H1N1 (2009) […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it has approved a vaccine for 2009-2010 seasonal influenza in the United States. The seasonal influenza vaccine will not protect against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus that resulted in the declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 11, 2009. […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Health has confirmed novel H1N1 influenza infection likely contributed to underlying medical conditions that caused the death of an adult in her late 60’s on June 19 at Tripler Army Medical Center.   The Oahu resident is the first death in Hawaii associated with the new flu strain and […]

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Media releases compiled by Baron Sekiya/Hawaii247.com In their weekly Novel H1N1 Flu report the Hawaii Department of Health reported 205 new confirmed cases in the state. This brings to total number of confirmed cases in the state of Hawaii to 503 on Wednesday (June 24). The DOH no longer releases the case numbers by counties. […]

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Media Releases compiled by Baron Sekiya/Hawaii247.com Hawaii’s number of confirmed cases increased by five today (May 18) bringing the total to 26. As of May 18, 2009, 5 a.m. HST the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 48 states have reported 5, 123 cases (not including today’s five new Hawaii cases) and five deaths. As of May 17, 2009, 8 […]

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MEDIA RELEASE HONOLULU – The Hawai‘i State Department of Health, in collaboration with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation and Japan Airlines, today conducted the next phase of a pilot project successfully launched this past June to screen passengers of international […]

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