KFOX's newsroom was flooded with phone calls on Wednesday about the text message so many received.

Richard Reyes feared the worst when he felt his phone vibrate and got a text message.

"The first thought was, 'God, it's already here in El Paso.' That's something that scared me," said Reyes.

It was a forward, saying, "The first confirmed case of swine flu at Thomason Hospital in El Paso, Texas."

"This text message is not only causing concern and out cry to the media to ask what's going on, and to get the truth from the hospitals and find out exactly what is happening," Reyes told KFOX.

And that was what KFOX wanted to find out at a press conference with the El Paso Department of Public Health and Thomason Hospital.

"There are no probable cases, there are no confirmed cases. Per my communications with the government in Mexico this morning, they have no confirmed or probable cases in the state of Chihuaha," said Michael Hill, the director of the El Paso Department of Public Health.

"This is not a situation where we need to panic. It's simply an illness, and the reason we do the studies is for epidemiology to find out what strain it is," said Ken Berumen with Sierra Providence Health Network.

Reyes said he will take the advice of the second part of the text message, which said "be careful with people with colds." But he believed the message only spreads panic.

"This text message is playing with our emotions, it plays with the fears that people already have in their minds of it could happen to me now," he said.

It was reiterated again and again at the press conference that swine flu is just another illness, and that people should not panic because the health professionals in El Paso are treating it like they would any other form of the flu.