ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Maryland health officials said they have received kits from the federal government to confirm swine flu cases in the state.
But it may take a day or two before state officials can start doing their own tests of the state's 15 probable cases.
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene spokesman David Paulson said confirmation tests must be run.
A backlog at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention swine-flu testing laboratory in Atlanta had kept Maryland's cases from being confirmed.
Five Maryland schools have been closed because of probable cases: Folger McKinsey Elementary in Anne Arundel County, Milford Mill Academy in Baltimore County, Rockville High in Montgomery County and Montpelier and University Park elementaries in Prince George's County.
