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The City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department) recently celebrated its 100th anniversary providing public health services to Long Beach residents. The Health Department promotes and protects the public’s health by supporting and empowering the local community to participate in actions to make Long Beach a healthy city. By having its own Health Department, the City of Long Beach is able to design and deliver programs to meet the specific needs of Long Beach residents, which assists in their involvement in making Long Beach a healthier place to live work and play.
H1N1 (Swine) Flu Information Page
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State of California H1N1 Flu Virus Hotline 1-888-865-0564
(English and Spanish)
Public Health InfoLine: (562) 570-4499
Please feel free to call our 24-hour information line for up to date information on any local public health issues of concern. For general Department information during regular business hours, please contact us at (562) 570-4000.
| Updated 5.4.09
The State of California Department of Public Health Laboratory has determined that the City of Long Beach now has five (5) confirmed cases of swine flu (H1N1), which includes the California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) student confirmed to have this strain of the flu late Saturday. In addition, over the weekend, four more cases of swine flu were confirmed by the State Public Health Laboratory.
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| Updated 5.2.09
The State of California today confirmed that the one probable case of swine flu identified earlier this week in a student at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) has been diagnosed as swine flu (H1N1). This confirmation was provided by the State’s Public Health Laboratory, and is the first confirmed case of swine flu in Long Beach. The Health Department continues to receive information from the local medical community of other probable cases of swine flu in the City.
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| Updated 5.1.09
The City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (Health
Department) has detected two additional probable cases of swine influenza. Both patients presented to local area hospital emergency rooms with influenza like illness, and they were evaluated, tested and released home. The epidemiological investigation of these individuals is on-going, and their specimens have been sent to the State Laboratory for confirmation.
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