LYNN – A student from Breed Middle School is being tested for the swine flu, but city health officials are confident she will test negative.Health Director Maryann O’Connor said the female student is a “low, low, low risk” priority.”It is highly unlikely (the student has the swine flu),” she said. “She has none of the travel history; there was no quick onset. It was gradual onset, so we’re really pretty confident (she doesn’t have it). It is most likely the regular, seasonal flu.”O’Connor said the student has been told to stay out of school for seven days, but that is the extent of the action the School Department is taking.”If we find out differently, we’ll take other precautions,” she said, adding that federal health officials are not instructing schools to be closed.Superintendent Catherine Latham said she does not anticipate the student testing positive for the virus and is being careful not to panic about the situation.”We are certainly not going to panic over this, I think everyone is on a little bit of heightened alert because we are afraid that something is going to happen, we have to be careful not to overreact,” she said. “We don’t want to add to the panic, so we are just following (O’Connor’s) lead and I don’t think we are going to see anything come out of those tests.”The student, who had recently been on vacation but did not travel anywhere affected by swine flu, became sick with flu-like symptoms on Wednesday or Thursday of this week.Due to a general heightened alert because of swine flu, doctors decided to test the student as a precaution, despite not being a high risk to contract the illness.Breed Principal Fredrick DuPuis informed parents of the situation via email and the Connect Ed phone system Friday, but did not announce the situation to students.”From everything I hear from the nursing department and from Maryanne O’Connor, it seems as though the child just has a regular flu,” he said. “She doesn’t have the travel history – she was on vacation last week, but she wasn’t anywhere that the flu would be.”Both Latham and DuPuis said the school would remain open and go about business as usual, per the advice of the health department.”We are taking our direction from the health department. Because there is no positive test yet, we are still treating it like a regular flu symptom,” said DuPuis.There have been 140 confirmed swine flu cases in the United States as of Friday afternoon, with one confirmed death, that of a 23-month-old Mexican toddler living in Texas. As a result, as many as 300 schools have been closed nationwide and two states, Texas and Alabama, have indefinitely postponed all high school sporting events.In Massachusetts, two young brothers from Lowell are the only two confirmed cases, although the Harvard Dental School was closed Friday because a student was believed to be carrying the virus.The Breed Middle School student is the only student undergoing swine flu testing in Lynn as of Friday afternoon, despite rumors in the city that students at other schools, including English High School, are also being tested.