Auckland students are likely to have contracted swine flu testing has found.
Three teachers and 22 senior students from North Shore’s Rangitoto College have been kept in isolation following their return yesterday from a three week language trip.
More than 80 people in Mexico are believed to have died and over 1300 are sick as a result of catching swine flu. Cases have also been reported in New York, California and Kansas and a British Airways pilot has been hospitalised in London with flu symptoms after returning from Mexico.
Health Minister Tony Ryall said in a statement this evening 10 of the 13 students tested had returned positive influenza results.
France finds 2 suspected cases of swine flu
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Two suspected cases of Mexico’s deadly swine flu have been found in France after the WHO’s warning over its global “pandemic potential.”
“We do have suspicions, but these have not been confirmed, about two people who have returned from Mexico,” general health director Didier Houssin told Le Parisien paper on Sunday.
The flu virus initially emerged in Mexico, killing up to 81 people and infecting over 1,300 others.
The US health authorities also reported that 11 people are infected in Kansas, Texas and California. Eight suspected patients were also found in New York City.
Earlier on Saturday, the World Health Organization warned that the virus has the potential to become global pandemic, calling it a “public health emergency of international concern.”
Following the announcement of the outbreak, Colombian health authorities said it is closely monitoring the deadly virus.
Social Welfare Minister Diego Palacio said that health authorities have set up an emergency committee to fight the strain