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Governor Bredesen says the Volunteer state has been hit with the virus…. The latest from the Tennessean…

A child in Williamson County who attends Harding Academy in Nashville likely has the first case of swine flu in Tennessee, Gov. Phil Bredesen said.
The child, whose gender and age were not released, is at home and doing well, according to Bredesen and State health commissioner Susan Cooper.
“This is not unexpected at this point,” Bredesen said. “We never doubted that once we began looking more closely and doing more testing that it would be only a matter of time before we identified a case in Tennessee.”
The CDC will have to confirm the case, but the test that diagnosed the child is 95 percent accurate, Bredesen said.
Harding Academy will be closed for seven calendar days, on the recommendation of the CDC.