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American Samoa warns about illness outbreak
Posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 8:46 am
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) ? American Samoa is issuing a health alert after about 100 people went to the territory's only hospital with symptoms similar to Dengue fever.
The Department of Health and LBJ Medical Center officials say they detected an illness outbreak among people on the main island of Tutuila having fever, rash and joint pain in the past two weeks.
Health Director Motusa Tuileama Nua says the outbreak may be from mosquito-spread diseases in the South Pacific...
American Samoan death linked to fever outbreak
Updated at 8:12 am today
The LBJ Hospital and Department of Health in American Samoa are awaiting lab results of blood samples before determining the death of a 28 year old man.
There are suspicions the cause was the acute fever rash disease, which appears to be spreading in the territory.
The Director of Health, Motusa Tuileama Nua, says the man's blood samples, as well as those of 23 others affected, have been sent off-island for testing and it will take up to two weeks before the results are known...
Chikungunya virus confirmed in American Samoa
Updated at 9:30 am today
The Health Department in American Samoa says it has confirmed the acute rash outbreak as cases of Chikungunya, a virus similar to dengue fever.
Three of the samples sent off island for testing have been confirmed as the virus, which are the first confirmed cases of Chikungunya in American Samoa...
