Ten positive influenza results from testing carried out on 13 students from Rangitoto College in Auckland who returned from Mexico on Saturday have been confirmed by Health Minister Tony Ryall.
A deadly new strain of flu that has killed as many as 68 people in Mexico has spread north into the United States. More than a 1,000 others are reported to have have been infected by the swine flu virus - 8 in Texas and California. Now scientists are raising fears of a pandemic. World health officials are meeting today to discuss the international response to the crisis.