KOB-TV is reporting that the New Mexico Department of Health is sending two more “likely” cases of H1N1, or “swine,” flu to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). This brings the total of cases sent to the CDC to four.
So far there have been zero confirmed cases of swine flu in New Mexico and just 109 nationwide.
Both of the new suspected cases are from Socorro County.
New Mexico has to send suspected case to the CDC for testing because the state lab facilities are not equipped to determine whether it is the H1N1 strain of flu. The state has tested 41 potential cases of the swine flu.