Several detainees at the Krome detention center have developed flu-like symptoms and are being tested to determine whether it is H1N1 influenza or the regular flu, Miami-Dade County health officials said Thursday.

''We don't know if it's regular flu or swine,'' department spokeswoman Olga Connor said.

If it is H1N1 flu, it would be the first such ''cluster'' in Florida, which to date has reported 274 individual cases. A cluster is when an illness spreads rapidly among a group of people in close physical contact with each other.

Specimens from those taken ill were sent to the state health department lab in Miami, which is expected to report back on Friday, Connor said.

Nicole Naval, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which runs the camp, confirmed that some detainees have symptoms, although she did not know how many.

She emphasized that no swine flu cases have been confirmed, and said the camp has procedures to deal with such illnesses.

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