A number of LSU athletes are among the students on campus diagnosed with Type A influenza, Senior Associate Athletic Director Herb Vincent said Tuesday.”I don’t know the number; I was told there were several [cases],” Vincent said. “I don’t think there are a lot. We’ve got to expect that we’re going to have some just like the general student population, so we have to take the same precautions.”LSU football coach Les Miles said no one on the football team has tested positive for any type of influenza.”There are a couple of guys who were swabbed but don’t have the flu,” Miles said. “We understand the precautions we need to take. Our training staff is all over it. We’ve had meetings with them, and they’ve instructed us what to do and what not to do. I can only hope it stays clear.”LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory said her players are worried about the campus flu outbreak, but they are not letting any fears consume them.”It’s got to be a concern to everybody, but I don’t think it’s an over-the-top concern,” Flory said. “We have talked about it, but it is what it is. We can’t keep ourselves or somebody else from getting it.”Student Health Center associate director Julie Hupperich said 143 students have tested positive since Aug. 10, but she said the Health Center does not record if a student is an athlete.”We are keeping track of the number of students who have tested positive, but we don’t break [positive tests] down into subsets with any demographic information,” Hupperich said. “We are not logging gender classification or whether or not they’re athletes.”Vincent said athletes have not been tested for the H1N1 virus, but he said a flu spreading in this season “is presumed to be the H1N1 virus.”Flory said the best thing her team can do is focus on staying healthy in the midst of the apprehension about the virus.”Honestly, I won’t be surprised if it hits us at some point,” she said. “It’s going to hit groups all over, and athletes, just like sorority people, when they are together in groups. But I’m not overly concerned.”—-Contact Rachel Whittaker at [email protected]