MEXICO CITY (AP) - Millions of children, many wearing surgical masks, returned to scrubbed and disinfected classrooms Monday after a nationwide shutdown to curb the spread of swine flu in Mexico. The worldwide toll of deaths linked to the illness rose to 61.China, meanwhile, was ramping up ...

TALAHASSEE (AP) - Officials have confirmed 31 more cases of swine flu in Florida, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 55.The Florida Department of Health on Monday said the new confirmed cases of the virus were in Osceola, Brevard, Sarasota, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Broward, Dade, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Based on new federal guidelines concerning school closures due to swine flu cases, officials from the Lee County Health Department, the Lee County School District, and Lee County Emergency Management announce that Spring Creek will re-open on Thursday, May 7."We have more information on the ...