Texas Teen Contracts Swine Flu; Family Quarantined

With fears mounting that a deadly strain of the swine flu has been making its way across Mexico, another case has been spotted in Texas. Hayden Henshaw, a teenager living in Texas, has been confirmed to have contracted  the swine flu. After becoming ill he was rushed to the doctor and her father asked that he be checked to see if she possibly had the flu after seeing it talked about on the news. They almost immediately received the bad news that she had indeed contracted the swine flu, making him the third case to be confirmed at his Texas high school.

As of now, 68 people have been confirmed to have been killed by the virus in Mexico, and Hayden is now one of eight confirmed cases within the United States. It is causing a lot of fear in the area, as people are being asked to watch out for possible swine flu symptoms, and the World Health Organization is working hard to keep their people at the front lines. The fear is that it could spread north from Mexico, and that the flu has the potential to make a lot of people sick if it isn't brought under control in a swift manner. The worry that it may already be spreading in the United States has caused some quick movement by health officials.

When it was determined that Henshaw had the swine flu, the rest of her family was asked to give blood for testing, and were then quarantined into their home for an indefinite amount of time. Health officials have told the family to stay inside and away from the public, probably in the hopes that they can keep this from being spread around a larger population of people. It's obviously a very scary time for the family, and the hope is that they are going to be all right because it was caught so quickly when Hayden contracted the disease.

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