Swine flu turns up in NYC, but type is unclear

[jose v]

NEW YORK — At least eight students at a New York City high school probably have human swine influenza, but authorities don't know whether they have the strain that has killed people in Mexico.

City health officials say more than 100 students at the private St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens have come down with a fever, sore throat and other aches and pains.

New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden says a government lab needs to do more testing before authorities can pinpoint which strain of flu the students have.

Results are not expected until Sunday.

The symptoms in New York have all been mild and no students have been hospitalized, but the illnesses have caused concern because of an outbreak of a strain in Mexico responsible for as many as 68 deaths.
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090425/US.Swine.Flu.States/

[Ullan]

Fever, sore throat, other aches and pains...

And this is taking place inside a school?

Oh dear, this must be swine flu. Egads, it's a pandemic, who will think of the children?!

It's late spring, hayfever is springing up everywhere, the last tenacious bits of the common flu and common cold are making their last rounds and let's not forget what a festering hive of virii and bacteria a high school can be.

Fearmongering is what this is. Give it no thought.