Press Release – Secretariat of The Pacific Community – SPC

A workshop aimed at reviewing and strengthening current influenza surveillance systems in the Pacific Island region is currently underway in Fiji. Read more »

Column – Citizens for Legitimate Government

US to pay up to 100 million dollars to build new Bagram prison 19 Sep 2011 As the Obama administration announced plans for hundreds of billions of dollars more in domestic budget cuts , it late last week solicited bids for the construction of a … Read more »

Press Release – Ministry of Health

The Pandemic Influenza Mortality and Morbidity Review Group (PIMMRG) has today released its report on the first wave of pandemic influenza in New Zealand last year. Read more »

Press Release – Ministry of Health

Overall influenza H1N1 activity continues to decrease below baseline levels. While some cases and clusters of influenza are likely to continue, this is much less frequent now and at a national level we are nearing the end of the second wave of pandemic … Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Government

New Zealand is fully supportive of a United States-led initiative to ensure developing countries can fight an influenza pandemic, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said today. President Barack Obama has announced that the US will give 10 per cent of the H1N1 …
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By Oceania Flash in Paris

Swine flu problem in New Caledonia. Photo: Les Nouvelles

The French government is sending medical back-up teams to both New Caledonia and French Polynesia  in the wake of a series of suspected H1N1 influenza-related deaths this week.

The medical teams will comprise a dozen doctors and nurses whose main task will be to provide additional support to local medical staff.
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Press Release – Cook Islands Government

At 7pm Tuesday 07 July 2009 notification was received from ESR Unit, Wellington, New Zealand that Cook Islands has two further confirmed positive cases of Influenza A H1N1.
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