28 get flu at Wimbledon

None of the 28 have been diagnosed with swine flu.

SHOOT: But have they been tested? They'll probably test once the tournament is over, which is a bit reckless.

clipped from sports.yahoo.com WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Flu-like symptoms are spreading among Wimbledon staff, although organizers said no personnel has been diagnosed with swine flu. All England Club spokesman Johnny Perkins said Wednesday that 28 staffers have been asked to stay home—up from four on Monday. However, he said that’s out of 6,000 staffers working at Wimbledon during the championships, meaning the number of cases was not abnormally high. None of the 28 have been diagnosed with swine flu, he said. British newspaper Daily Mail reported Wednesday that three doubles players at the tournament had caught swine flu, but Perkins said organizers wouldn’t comment. “We can’t, because we wouldn’t necessarily know,” Perkins said. “It’s confidential between them and their medical staff.”