Swine Flu causing more headaches.

Texas officials postponed all public high school athletic and academic competitions on Wednesday until May 11Th because of the Swine flu outbreak. This movement suspended the baseball and softball seasons and the regional track championships that were to start on Friday."The health and safety of our student activity participants is of the utmost importance," Breithaupt said. "Taking every possible precaution to prevent the further spreading of this disease is an important contribution to the welfare of our great state, and altering the schedule of our events is a way to keep our participants safe." 53,000 students are out of school due to the virus. More than a dozen of schools were closed to be sanitized. There has been 16 confirmed cases of swine flu in Texas. Texas isn't the only school that canceled. Alabama officials have shut down all athletic events following the discovery of likely cases of swine flu in Huntsville. There was suppose to be state track and field championships this weekend but now they will have to be rescheduled. "This is not something we want to do," Savarese said. "Right now, we want to be cautious."