Source: Xinhua
04-30-2009 10:25
Special Report: Tech MaxWELLINGTON, April 28 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand Public Health Director Mark Jacobs announced on Tuesday night that results from some of the Rangitoto College students who tested positive to Influenza A on Sunday, have also tested positive for Swine Flu H1N1.
Results from three of the 11 samples were received earlier Tuesday evening from the World Health Organization regional laboratory in Melbourne and all tested positive for the same strain of Swine Flu. Testing was continuing on a fourth sample.
"On the basis of these results, we are assuming that all of the people in the group who had tested positive for Influenza A have Swine Flu. As a result we are continuing with the current treatment which has been based on this assumption," he told a press conference in Wellington.
"We were advised that the lab in Melbourne selected four of the best samples of the very delicate genetic material to analyze. They found three positive results and one is still to be confirmed," he added.
The school group returned to New Zealand on Saturday from a trip to Mexico, the presumed source of the worldwide swine flu outbreak.
