A Second South Dakotan Hospitalized For Swine Flu

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By Dawn Crawley
By KSFY News

Story Created: Jul 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM CST

Story Updated: Jul 6, 2009 at 8:48 AM CST

A second South Dakotan is now hospitalized because of the swine flu.

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This means across the state eight new cases have been reported in just a week including a case in brown county.

Hospital officials in Aberdeen have not confirmed whether the person in the hospital is the same case coming out of brown county.

There are now 33 cases of the H1N1 virus in South Dakota. Here is a breakdown by county:

Minnehaha county leads the state with 11 confirmed cases of the swine flu virus. The next county with many cases is Pennington County where six cases of the swine flu have been confirmed.

Lincoln, Beadle, Dewey, and Yankton counties all have two cases each of the swine flu.

The rest of these counties have one confirmed case each---Brown, Butte, Davison, Fall River, Haakon, Spink, Turner, and Union.

Avera St. Luke's officials in Aberdeen will have a statement about the swine flu on Monday.

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