A woman in Texas has become the first United States resident, to die from the H1N1 virus.

Officials say the woman was in her 30s and suffered from other chronic health problems.

Meanwhile, test kits for the virus have arrived in the Commonwealth, making it much faster to check for possible H1N1 cases. Before the kits arrived, the state had to send samples to Atlanta. Now those samples can be sent to Richmond, making response times much shorter.

There are currently more than 400 cases confirmed nationwide, with 11 in Virginia.

Concern over H1N1 shut down Cinco de Mayo parties in Mexico, but some Valley residents still gathered to celebrate Tuesday.

At the Pueblo Grande restaurant in Harrisonburg, several people have friends and family in Mexico. They say they are concerned, but life must go on.

"Well, you've got to worry about it. But, it's just like, what are you going to do? You've got to do whatever you've got to do," says Roberto Garcia, manager at Pueblo Grande.

A total of 26 people in Mexico have died of the H1N1 virus and hundreds more are confirmed to be sick with it.