Most of the swine flu cases in the U.S. have been mild, but officials huddled on conference calls in reaction to the outbreak, which has killed 81 people in Mexico.
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AP - Two cases of the human swine influenza have been confirmed in Kansas and one more in California, bringing the U.S. total to 11. At least eight students at a New York City high school probably have swine flu also, but health officials said Saturday they don't know whether they have the same strain of the virus that has killed people in Mexico.
AP - A University of Georgia professor who police suspect in the fatal shootings of his ex-wife and two men outside a theater near campus Saturday disappeared in his Jeep after dropping his children off with a neighbor, authorities said.
AP - Mexico's president assumed new powers Saturday to isolate people infected with a deadly swine flu strain as authorities struggled to contain an outbreak that world health officials warned could become a global epidemic.
A U.S. journalist jailed in Iran for espionage is on a hunger strike, and plans to keep it up until she is freed, her father told CNN on Saturday. Roxana Saberi, 31, was sentenced last week to eight years in prison after a one-day trial that was closed to the public.
Two more cases of a potentially deadly new strain of the swine flu virus were confirmed Saturday in the U.S. In Mexico, where 68 people have died, the Health Ministry has been given emergency powers to battle the spread of the virus. The World Health organization has called the outbreak "a public health emergency of international concern."
Police are looking for a University of Georgia professor in the shooting deaths of three people on Saturday, authorities tell CNN. George Zinkhan is a professor in the department of marketing and distribution, according to the university Web site. CNN affiliat e WSB-TV said the victims were shot behind The Taylor-Grady House, a National Historic Landmark.