The swine flu, responsible for more than 100 deaths in Mexico, is spreading around the Big Apple in a new way.
Officials confirmed yesterday that there was at least one person sick with the bug who hadn’t been to Mexico and wasn’t linked to St. Francis Prep in Queens, the site of the biggest US outbreak.
But city Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Frieden stressed that the illness appeared to have caused no more severe a sickness than seasonal flu.
So far, 62 cases have been confirmed in the city.
St. Francis and PS 177, which also had a cluster of cases, are expected to reopen this week.
The Deer Park school system in Suffolk County, meanwhile, is expected to close this week after three middle-school students came down with a mild form of the disease.
All the kids have mild symptoms and are recovering without hospitalization, officials said.