NEWS.COM.AU FORTY-FOUR people with suspected swine flu are being tested in Australia, with authorities searching for 300 others who could have come into contact with the disease.
Health specialists have quarantined 12 people in South Australia, fearing they have been exposed to virus.
SA Health chief medical officer Professor Paddy Phillips said preliminary tests had already cleared two of the 14 people originally identified as being at risk of having the flu.
Five people in the ACT have been told to stay at home while they await test results.
Ten people in New South Wales, mostly in Sydney, are currently being tested for the disease. The number of suspected cases doubled this in New South Wales morning after five more people presented to hospitals and GPs across Sydney
Five of these people have come through the first stage of testing and have been found to have contracted an unidentifiable type A virus, federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon said
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