RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO.com) — The South Dakota Department of Health has put out their latest flu surveillance report, for the week of February 9th through 15th.
That week did not include the death of a fourth-grader from the West Central school district reported on Sunday the 16th. The week ending February 15th saw an increase of over 17-hundred new flu diagnosed cases, bringing the statewide total so far this season to more than 93-hundred cases. Both Influenza A and Influenza B are active in the state right now.
There were two more deaths related to the flu reported that week, bringing the total to fourteen deaths statewide as of last Saturday.
Minnehaha County has had more than three-thousand cases reported, while Pennington County had 865 so far. The flu is more active in Lincoln and Union counties, also Davison county, Brown County, Beadle County, Codington County, Hughes County, and Oglala Lakota County.
