Via Scoop :
" The Canterbury health system is activating its 2010 influenza strategy following a rapid rise in the number of cases of Pandemic Influenza H1N1 (swine flu) in Canterbury in the last three weeks.
Canterbury District Health Board Chief Medical Officer Dr Nigel Millar said, the flu was having only a mild to moderate impact on Canterbury compared to other parts of the country but systems needed to be in place to ensure that health services could cope with increasing numbers of sick people.
“We now have 135 identified cases of swine flu in the community and three quarters of these have been detected in August. Thankfully we think that upwards of 40 per cent of Canterbury people are likely to be immune to swine flu this year either from vaccination or having come in contact with it last year,” he said."
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