Published: June 12, 2009 01:29 pm      

28 new swine flu cases reported in Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS — Twenty-eight new cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Indiana, bringing the state’s total number of cases to 201.

The latest cases announced Thursday came the same day that the World Health Organization declared that the spread of swine flu has caused the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.

Thirteen people have been hospitalized in Indiana with the virus and released, but there have been no reported Indiana deaths associated with the virus.

The Indiana State Department of Health said Thursday that 92 of the state’s total swine flu illnesses have been in Marion County and 69 in Lake County. The rest have been in 12 other Indiana counties.