The county now confirms nine new cases of swine flu in the county, including the cases that led the county to close three local schools.
The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) reported Monday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed nine new cases of swine flu in San Diego County, bringing the total number of cases to 24.
One of the new cases, an 18-year-old female, was hospitalized, but has since recovered, according to the county news release.
Two of them have a travel history to Mexico.
New cases confirmed Monday involved a 9-year old girl, a 12-year old girl, a 15-year old girl, a 15-year old boy, an 18-year old woman, a 20-year old woman, a 42-year old man, a 51-year old man and a 53-year old woman, according to the county.
San Diego County health officials closed three schools because of the threat of swine flu, affecting about 5,000 students. The probable cases that caused those closures have now all been confirmed by the CDC.
On Monday, the only real activity happening inside classrooms at those schools was the work of the school custodians.
Local
Workers disinfected desks at Mission Hills High School in San Marcos. In fact, every hard surface needs to be cleaned. Every classroom. Every office. Crews expect to finish the work by the end of the day Monday.
Mission Hills along with Kearny High School in Linda Vista and the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts in Paradise Hills were closed by the county Friday.
The Kearny High student is a 15 year old girl, the Mission Hills student is a 15 year old boy and the School of Creative and Performing Arts student is a 12 year old female, according to Wilma Wooten with the HHSA.
All athletic competitions are canceled and state testing scheduled for classes this week is postponed.
"Teachers will be able to come back to the schools on a daily basis to work, as long as none of them exhibit signs of the flu," San Diego Unified School Superintendent Terry Grier said.
The schools will remain closed for 14 days and will reopen the first Monday after the closure expires, May 18, Grier said Friday.
Health officials have not recommended that other schools in the county close as a precaution. “If they recommended to us that we close the district down, we’d be standing here telling you that,” Grier said Friday. “It’s business as usual throughout the district.”
Four Sick at Polinsky Center
Also announced Monday by HHSA chief Wilma Wooten is that four people connected to the county's Polinsky Children's Center are sick with probably cases of swine flu. One staff member and three children have been identified and treated.
