KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Fears about the swine flu may have led an entire busload of children to check into Celebration Hospital (see map) on Friday. The bus had 52 people aboard headed from an Orlando hotel to Mississippi, but they stopped at the hospital because some kids were sick.

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The bus driver told the owner of the bus line, Knight Coach Inc. based out of Laurel, Mississippi, that he's feeling fine, but as many as ten of the passengers are suspected to have flu symptoms. The charter bus driver brought all his passengers to Celebration Hospital after some of the children's chaperones woke the driver at the group's hotel saying several children felt ill.

Hospital officials confirmed that the patients were complaining of flu-like symptoms. The health department has been notified and says at least one of the children on the bus was diagnosed with Influenza-A earlier this week. Currently, about 80-percent of all Influenza-A cases turn out to be swine flu.

Now, doctors worked to determine just how many passengers were sick, but didn't release details, and the students were cleared for a return trip to Mississippi. The hospital is providing medication for those who need it and working to provide masks for at least some of the kids to wear on the 12-hour trip home, which they are expected to embark upon Friday evening.

The health department says the possible outbreak is no surprise, as the swine flu is basically everywhere and similar incidents will actually become more common in coming months.

Eyewitness News has confirmed a 19-year-old Brevard County girl was rushed to Shands Hospital in critical condition because of swine flu and it continues to spread through Central Florida. The number of cases in Orange County has now topped 200. At UCF alone, there are 11 confirmed cases.

There are also now nine deaths linked to swine flu statewide. Two deaths in south Florida were confirmed Friday. But it does appear that swine flu is actually less dangerous than the regular flu. Each year in Florida, an estimated 2,400 people die from the regular flu and pneumonia.