Swine flu spreads to every Australian state, territory

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Health authorities in every state and territory in Australia are now dealing with swine flu, after the Northern Territory reported its first case overnight.

A total of 255 people now have the virus.

The Northern Territory centre for disease control is monitoring the woman and a group of people she's been in contact with. They are being treated with tamiflu and are under home isolation.

The woman arrived on a flight from Melbourne to Darwin last Friday but has only now tested positive to the virus. It's unclear how many passengers she may have come into contact with but health authorities will try and track down them all.

It's the first case to be reported in the Northern Territory.

Most swine flu cases are in Victoria.

A total of 173 people are being treated there while in New South Wales there are 54 notifications.

Queensland has 15 cases, South Australia 6, there are four in the ACT and one each in Western Australia and Tasmania.