GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization raised its tally of confirmed human cases of swine flu to 4,694 in 30 countries, after the United States shot ahead of Mexico over the weekend.The so-called A (H1N1) virus has killed 53 people worldwide, the agency said.The United States has reported ...

There are now seven confirmed cases of swine flu in Lee County.The local cases involve: a 10-year-old boy, a 7-year-old boy, a 21-year-old woman, an 18-year-old man, an 8-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy, and a 60-year-old woman.All four Department of Health laboratories have received testing ...

Six Lee County cases of H1N1 have been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control. Three of those cases are new, two from Cape Coral and one from Lehigh.Of the Cape residents, one is a school-aged child, and the other an adult female.Nor the Lee County Health Department nor the School ...

There are now 23 cases of swine flu confirmed in Florida, three of them in Lee County, which also has two probable cases awaiting testing.The state has confirmed cases in the following counties: one in Alachua, Clay, Indian River, Okechobee, Orange, Seminole, and Pinellas; two in Dade, three ...

Cape Coral has two probable cases of swine flu.Samples from the possible cases of H1N1 virus have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for further confirmatory testing, the Lee County Heath Department said today.Meanwhile, a third Lee County case of swine flu ...

Six cases of swine flu virus have now been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.Of the three new confirmed cases, two are Cape Coral residents and one is a Lehigh resident. Of the Cape Coral residents, one is a school-aged child and the other is an adult ...

Six Lee County cases of H1N1 have been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control. Three of those cases are new, two from Cape Coral and one from Lehigh.Of the Cape residents, one is a school-aged child, and the other an adult female.Nor the Lee County Health Department nor the School ...

Spring Creek Elementary School in Bonita Springs is set to reopen Thursday - two days earlier than expected - after being shuttered in hopes of containing an H1N1 flu outbreak.The Lee County Health Department and Lee County School District decided to close the school for one week on Friday ...

The Center for Disease Control no longer recommends that communities with a laboratory confirmed case of influenza A H1N1 consider adopting school dismissal or childcare closure measures.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 403 confirmed cases of novel influenza in the ...

With five confirmed H1N1 flu cases in Florida, the state surgeon general has declared a public health emergency, and a toll-free information line has been set up for the public for those with questions.The telephone number is (800) 342-3557, and the line is open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.In Lee County, ...