Ga. safe from swine flu for now
Date: Apr 29th, 2009 • Categories: 2008-2009, 2009-04-30, News • 852 viewsBy:Karah-Leigh Hancock
Karah-Leigh Hancock
Editor-in-Chief
kphancoc@valdosta.edu
As of Wednesday at 11 a.m., there have been no cases of the swine flu in Georgia.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 91 cases of the flu and one death nationwide.
The first fatal victim of the outbreak is a 23-month-old toddler in Texas.
The states with labatory confirmed cases of Swine Flu are Arizona (1), California (14), Indiana (1), Kansas (2), Massachusetts (2), Michigan (2), Nevada (1), New York (51), Ohio (1) and Texas (16).
Swine flu symptoms in humans are the same as with the regular human flu and include coughing, sore throat, body aches, headaches, chills, fever and fatigue.
For more information on swine flu, visit the CDC at http://www.cdc.gov.
