At St. James Medical Center, Communications Manager Anita Schlabach said flu information is available in Spanish and staff are working to put it on the hospital’s Web site as well.

The hospital also has a “language line” available to Latino residents, whereby their phone inquiries in Spanish are translated for their doctors, whose comments are translated back in Spanish.

Schlabach said there have been some Latino people coming in for flu tests because they’ve either visited Mexico recently or come in contact with someone who has.

“That’s the source of their concern,” she said.

For now, Aasen said, all anyone can do is wait.

“The situation is very fluid at this time, and we’ll know more in a couple of weeks how it all plays out.”