Anyone who has travelled to Mexico or North America in the last seven days should contact Healthline (0800 611 116) for information. They should seek medical advice if they are displaying flu-like symptoms.
http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/mexican-swine-influenza-update-270409#related
for the Ministry of Health’s influenza website
At noon today, of a total of 1059 confirmed cases, 207 were Maori, 212 were Pacific Islanders, and 258 were European.
Other ethnicities among patients with confirmed swine flu totalled 84 while another 298 were of unknown ethnicity.
Of the 761 confirmed swine flu patients for whom ethnicity is known, 27.2 percent were Maori, 27.8 percent Pacific Islanders, 33.9 percent European, and 11 percent other ethnicities, Health Ministry figures show.
In the 2006 census just 14.6 percent of the population were Maori, and 14.7 percent Polynesian.