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Originally posted by asala
WCBS-TV: The swine flu outbreak has spread to Nassau. Health Commissioner is scheduled to announce the County's first confirmed case
Fourteen people in Auckland are now being treated as having swine flu with another 31 suspected cases nationwide. At a press conference in Wellington this morning, health officials said there were now 12 people from Rangitoto College who had tested positive for Influenza A. They believed 12 had swine flu. Meanwhile it has emerged this morning that two Auckland travellers, who had returned on to New Zealand on US flights, were also being treated for swine flu after testing positive for Influenza A. Officials said while World Health Organisation swine flu tests in Melbourne had only been completed on three swabs sent from the Rangitoto College party – all three had come back positive and therefore they believed the rest of the group - plus the two Auckland travellers - also had swine flu. There were no other probable cases outside Auckland as yet but 31 people around the country had been tested for Influenza A and were suspected of possibly having the illness. They include 10 people in Nelson, eight in Christchurch, four in Hutt Valley, two in Taranaki, five in Waikato and another five in Auckland. At least 179 people are in isolation nationwide. Meanwhile, two women with suspected flu symptoms have been detained by health officials after arriving at Auckland Airport this morning. An Auckland Regional Public Health Service official said the two arrived on a Qantas flight from Los Angeles early this morning. Two women with suspected flu symptoms were detained by health officials after arriving at Auckland Airport this morning. They have been taken to Middlemore Hospital and will be tested for swine flu. More details are expected later this morning. Thousands of New Zealanders may have been exposed to the deadly swine flu virus because of a three-day delay in alerting health boards to potentially infected people.
Fox News is reporting that a plane at BWI airport is quarantined after arriving from Mexico. Ambulances arrived, workers wearing masks.
Its a AirTran Airways flight arriving from Cancun, Mexico; local Fox affiliate says one person on board with possibly flu like symptoms.
Originally posted by antmar
Another news site here in NZ:
Source
The number of New Zealanders potentially afflicted by swine flu continues to rise, with14 cases of swine flu-linked influenza A now in New Zealand.
[edit on 28-4-2009 by antmar]
Originally posted by TheCoffinman
www.thewest.com.au...
Originally posted by TheCoffinman
they have much more in NZ than 14
As early as February, neighbors all around her were coming down with unusually strong flu symptoms -- and the caseload kept growing. When state health workers came to investigate March 23, some 1,300 people sought their medical help. About 450 were diagnosed with acute respiratory infections and sent home with antibiotics and surgical masks.
"When we saw it on the television, we said to ourselves, 'This is what we had,'" he said Monday. "It all came from here. ... The symptoms they are suffering are the same that we had here."
Animal health expert Peter Roeder, a consultant to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, said many possibilities exist for how the virus first jumped to humans, and that it could have happened months or even a year ago.
Roeder said it's possible someone tending the pigs could have passed a human influenza virus to a pig already infected with another type of swine flu, and then that pig could have also come into contact with a bird virus. Then, the new H1N1 virus formed could have been transmitted back to the workers.
But that's just a theory -- and no one has any evidence that it happened in La Gloria.
Originally posted by ImzadiDax
20 suspected cases here in Wi. .....
www.nbc15.com...
Originally posted by asala
reply to post by TheCoffinman
I assume so that was all that was given,
Fox News is reporting that a plane at BWI airport is quarantined after arriving from Mexico. Ambulances arrived, workers wearing masks.
Its a AirTran Airways flight arriving from Cancun, Mexico; local Fox affiliate says one person on board with possibly flu like symptoms.
[edit on 28-4-2009 by asala]
Originally posted by elitegamer23
reply to post by ImzadiDax
Originally posted by ImzadiDax
20 suspected cases here in Wi. .....
www.nbc15.com...
this is getting too close to home
Originally posted by SMR
Swine Flu's Ground Zero? - Townspeople Are Convinced
Roeder said it's possible someone tending the pigs could have passed a human influenza virus to a pig already infected with another type of swine flu, and then that pig could have also come into contact with a bird virus. Then, the new H1N1 virus formed could have been transmitted back to the workers.