CITY-TV reports (rather calmly) that there are now confirmed Swine Flu cases in Toronto

In a refreshing break from the non-stop panic, Toronto's CITY-TV reports on the first confirmed cases of Swine Flu in the GTA:

For days, officials had been saying "when" not "if." That prognostication proved prescient on Tuesday, as Ontario health experts confirmed four cases of the swine flu turned up close to home in this province.

Three women have tested positive for the malady in Durham while a man is sick in York. None are directly in Toronto yet, but that could certainly change. At least 20 more people in Ontario are being probed to see if they have the influenza strain, a number Dr. David Williams, Ontario's Chief Acting Medical Officer of Health, calls "fluid."

Those affected aren't seriously ill and are recovering at home. All had recently travelled to Mexico. "These are mild cases," confirms Williams. "All the cases we've seen so far are mild, self limiting and it's like flu season continuing."

But, of course, we have to have a tension-escalating item:

But treating the disease or finding a vaccine may not be easy. "There is already evidence that the virus is mutating rapidly, as influenza does, and so whatever our model is going to be will be based on the history of the virus from a few weeks earlier," warns Dr. Vivek Goel of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.

OMG! He said "mutating"! The only things that ever mutate in movies are super-villains and monsters! Everybody PANIC!

Or, y'know, not.