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Four Boy Scouts, all members of a Dunwoody troop, have suspected cases of the H1N1 virus more commonly known as swine flu after a week at summer camp, according to an assistant scout leader.

The Atlanta scouts were among 700 campers planning to spend the week in the North Carolina mountains.

But on Monday, several scouts from a south Florida troop were running temperatures in the low 100s, and experiencing mild flu-like symptoms.

“I believe that they were sick when they left home,” said Dan Rogers, camp director. “But they weren’t showing outward signs. There were no symptoms of them having an illness until they got to camp.”

As more boys got sick, Rogers enlisted the help of the Haywood County Health Department in nearby Waynesville. Nearly two dozen campers showed flu-like symptoms, but only two have been confirmed as being H1N1, according to Rogers.

Troop leaders e-mailed updates to parents of the Atlanta scouts. Some parents opted to pick up their children Friday morning, and others returned home Friday evening, according to Ed Cerbone,