Swine flu spreads - US cases from 7, to 8 and now 11, Mexico toll goes from 20 to 68 dead

SHOOT: We can wake up tomorrow morning in a different world, with numbering like 5 000 and 23 000 and 107 000. That's how quickly this can happen.

clipped from news.yahoo.com NEW YORK – At least two cases of the human swine influenza have been confirmed in Kansas, bringing the U.S. total to 11. At least eight more are suspected in students at a New York City high school, but health officials say they don't know whether they have the same virus that has killed scores of people in Mexico. A strain of the flu has killed as many as 68 people and sickened more than 1,000 across Mexico. The World Health Organization chief says the strain has "pandemic potential" and it may be too late to contain a sudden outbreak. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta says besides the two confirmed cases in Kansas, there are nine in California and Texas.