NY Swine Flu Update: 62 Confirmed Cases

MYFOXNY.COM/AP - New York City's Health Department said there are now 62 confirmed cases of the swine flu (H1N1) as of Saturday night.

Meantime, two more probable cases have been reported in both Weschester County and Middlefield, Connecticut.

Watch the report from Fox 5's Rob Malcolm (video, left).

A Long Island school system is shutting down for a week because three students have probable swine flu cases.

A notice posted Saturday on the Deer Park school district Web site says all the students have mild symptoms and are recovering without hospitalization. But superintendent Elizabeth Marino says the district's six schools will close through May 10 as a precaution.

A Deer Park middle schooler was identified as a probable case earlier in the week, prompting many parents to keep their children home.

READ THE DEER PARK NOTICE

Marino says she learned Saturday of two more probable cases. A Suffolk County spokesman says the two are believed to have been included in a statewide count earlier Saturday.

More than 430 schools nationwide have closed because of the disease.

The total number of confirmed cases in the United States was at least 176. More than 750 cases have bene reported worldwide.

In Mexico, the health secretary said the number of confirmed swine flu cases has risen to 473, including 19 people who died.