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Respiratory syncytial virus
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To curb the spread of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), the government has ordered the closure of all Day Care Centers in the territory, beginning today, June 14, until further notice.
This was confirmed in a statement yesterday from Human and Social Services...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department has continued this week, the health advisory alert for the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) outbreak, while the Department of Human and Social Service’s Child Care Division also continues the closure of all childcare centers and family childcare...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an advisory released Sunday night, the Health Department announced that quarantine for travelers of the Jan. 27 flight from Honolulu has been extended to Friday, Feb. 11 in “light of the number of recent positive cases identified in quarantine.”
DoH data released at...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last Friday’s Health Department news conference, the territory lead Epidemiologist, Dr. Aifili J. Tufa, confirmed that DOH is working in collaboration with the Human and Social Service Department (DHSS) this week to shut down child care centers in efforts to “curb the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a health advisory, labeled “High Importance”, released over the weekend, the Health Department informs the public of “a recent outbreak of respiratory illnesses in the territory due to the Respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus, or RSV.”
It says that tests...