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Two reports.
Over the past few days, more than 200 students from a New York City non-public school have been out with an influenza-like illness.
Last night, 9 students were tested and their tests came back today `suggestive’ of swine flu. Samples have been sent to the CDC, more testing is pending, and we should know more tomorrow.
The good news is, the public health department has not received any word of serious illness among the students.
If the confirmatory tests come back positive tomorrow (and they probably will), authorities will likely close the school on Monday.
NYC health officials will be re-evaluating the situation on an hourly basis, but for now are heartened by the relatively mild symptoms being reported.
New York schoolchildren had flu, official says
25 Apr 2009 20:19:58 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - Tests have confirmed that eight New York city schoolchildren had a type A influenza virus, likely swine flu, New York city health commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden said on Saturday.
Samples have been sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for further testing to see if they are indeed the unusual H1N1 flu strain that has killed up to 68 people in Mexico and may have sickened others, Frieden told a news conference.
"In every single case, illness was mild. Many of the children are feeling better," Frieden said.
(Reporting by Maggie Fox, editing by Patricia Zengerle)
And in the past few minutes, this has just come over the wires.
Kansas state officials confirm two flu cases-CNN
25 Apr 2009 20:26:06 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - Kansas state health officials have confirmed two cases of swine flu, just minutes after New York health officials said they had eight probable cases, CNN reported on Saturday.
Health officials across the United States are testing for the new and unusual strain of H1N1 swine flu that is suspected of killing 68 people in Mexico and that has caused mild illness in at least eight people in the United States.
(Reporting by Maggie Fox)
We’re very likely to see a good many of these reports coming in over the next few days.
