States getting swine flu test kits
States getting swine flu test kits
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Dr. Richard Besser, Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, briefs the media at the White House on the government's response to swine influenza on April 26, 2009 in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images) ATLANTA (AP) - States across the country will soon be able to do their own testing for the swine flu virus.
The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that states will be sent kits to do their own tests. Until Wednesday, the tests were only being done by the CDC in Atlanta.
Dr. Richard Besser says swine flu tests can now also be done in a lab in Mexico.
Besser says health officials may eventually stop doing tests to confirm every case of swine flu.
The news came as the Centers for Disease Control reported 10 confirmed cases in South Carolina, bringing the total to more than 100 cases in 11 states.
Also Thursday, the head of Georgia's Division of Public Health says the CDC has confirmed the first case in that state, a 30-year-old woman from Kentucky who was hospitalized in the town of LaGrange while visiting west Georgia.
She'd been in Cancun, Mexico, earlier this month.
The woman remains hospitalized, although officials would not say where.
The CDC did not indicate whether the 10 cases in South Carolina were among 17 probable cases that state health officials have linked to a school trip to Mexico.