There was confusion among passengers on a flight which prompted a major health scare at Auckland Airport today.

Video link: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/health-scare-auckland-airport-4717991/video

Of the 274 people on board the Air New Zealand flight from Tokyo, approximately 50 to 60 were unwell Japanese students, the Auckland Regional Public Health service said this afternoon.

It was initially reported 73 Japanese students on the flight had flu-like symptoms.

The alarm was raised when the children arrived into Auckland off NZ90 from Narita, Tokyo, at 9.20 this morning with symptoms.

All passengers were allowed to leave the airport after being quarantined for some time.

'A bit of a shambles'

One passenger, David Turner from Wellington, says nobody knew what was going on and they were left waiting for around an hour-and-a-half before they were told.

He says even the captain kept coming on the intercom telling people how sorry he was that he had no idea what the situation was and when they could get off the plane.


Turner said ground staff panicked when he told them he had "a bit of a cold" and he  was put in a room where the sick students were brought.

"I said 'I'm perfectly healthy, I've got a cold, I'm not going to be exposed to these guys.'"

Turner said the sick students were then whisked to another room, but the whole situation was "a bit of a shambles".   Another passenger on the flight, Brooke Tuialii, said she found out on Facebook that there was a health scare.

"We were told two hours before they landed that they let customs or the health department know. But then it was still an hour-and-a-half after we landed before they came on board."

Tuialii said the paramedics who came on board were in white overalls with masks.

She also said most of the sick students were put in the same room as the unaffected passengers.

Colds or flu

Auckland Regional Public Health Service spokesperson Dr Julia Peters said the passengers in question have presented with symptoms such as coughs, which may be colds or may be flu. 

However, many did not display the fever which would indicate an influenza-like illness, she said.

"The situation is currently being assessed by the medical team from the Auckland Regional Public Health Service.

We are working with Auckland Airport, Air New Zealand and the Ministry of Health, and other agencies, managing the situation as per our usual procedures." The passengers, who are unaffected or well, have been cleared and have been able to leave the airport or continue on their journeys.

ONE News reporter Stephen Smith said at midday that unaffected passengers were allowed through Customs.
Smith said the children were part of a group of 90 Japanese students who were heading to Tauranga on a home-stay trip.

Peters said this is currently flu season in Japan, adding that the predominant flu strain in Japan is covered in New Zealand's seasonal flu vaccine and has been for a number of years.

An influenza epidemic is spreading across Japan, doubling the number of cases per hospital, The Mainichi Daily News reported.

Over 90% of the cases are due to the Hong Kong influenza A virus subtype H3N2, the report said.

Google flu trends also show that the virus is peaking in Japan.

The "Hong Kong Flu" pandemic of 1968 and 1969, caused by a strain of H3N2, killed an estimated one million people worldwide.

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With an intro from Mitch Santell.....

If anyone thinks that the Radiation form Fukushima was not going to arrive in New Zealand I would have said "your delusional." Well, as they said in the movie Poltergeist "They're here!

Read on to find out the rest! Wow!

According to Peter Daley in Australia....

I have been in contact with a person In New Zealand who just sent me information of a detection of a high level radiation cloud passing over Dunedin New Zealand. You will find a copy of his email correspondence below. This chart is the recorded background radiation level during this event.  Visual observation saw peaks reach an incredible 1.89 uS/Hr !

“Dear Peter,

Now that I have regained my composure, I thought I would write. It has been a wild afternoon! I shall write you a report upon what was observed later, if you wish to publish it, you can. Feel free to include those images on your website.
The steady-ish readings of 0.81 (photo) were taken when I came in off the street. It was briefly reading 1.89 on the street in the wind. I decided to come inside asap to the back yard, and then left the GS sitting outside for a while (0.25 photo) – checking on it. I’m in a relatively sheltered section. There was no way I was going to stand in ~2 microSieverts per hour in the wind!! No detectable radiation on me as such, it appears to be in the air. I can only speculate as to what it is. To be honest, it scared the cap out of me!

I remember waste drums putting out 1.2 micros per hour … but almost 2 in the wind – well?! You don’t stand in that and wait around. So far, I’ve kept it relatively quiet from the press, and shall continue to monitor – as we have a rain front system approaching from the South. I’m not sure how to handle this, as I wish to maintain a very very low profile.

It is clear, that both ARPANSA and NRL are intentionally playing dumb. That said, it is probably best that I feed information to you, and it can be used at your end effectively. I’m now set up with camera and logging everything on 1 minute sampling (in case the data fouls on transfer and also that a photographed reading says more than a data point)”

The steady-ish readings of 0.81 (photo) were taken when I came in off the street. It was briefly reading 1.89 on the street in the wind. I decided to come inside asap to the back yard, and then left the GS sitting outside for a while (0.25 photo) – checking on it. I’m in a relatively sheltered section. There was no way I was going to stand in ~2 microSieverts per hour in the wind!! No detectable radiation on me as such, it appears to be in the air. I can only speculate as to what it is. To be honest, it scared the cap out of me!

I remember waste drums putting out 1.2 micros per hour … but almost 2 in the wind – well?! You don’t stand in that and wait around. So far, I’ve kept it relatively quiet from the press, and shall continue to monitor – as we have a rain front system approaching from the South. I’m not sure how to handle this, as I wish to maintain a very very low profile.

It is clear, that both ARPANSA and NRL are intentionally playing dumb. That said, it is probably best that I feed information to you, and it can be used at your end effectively. I’m now set up with camera and logging everything on 1 minute sampling (in case the data fouls on transfer and also that a photographed reading says more than a data point).”

Here is his follow up report.

“Hello Peter!

Please find the following notes.
Notes re yesterday:

On Sunday 29/1/2012 at 13:30 local time an increase in radiation inside was noted. This was investigated, and found to be emanating from the atmosphere itself. Wind conditions were gusting to strong from the NW direction at the time. Standing in the street, a peak climbing rate of 1.89 microSieverts/hr was noted (the observer did not remain to see how high it would go, as it was considered unwise to do so).
The Gammascout was reset to collect data (as its memory was full), and the sampling window set to 1 minute.
Several excursions were made outside to investigate the conditions, and the results can be seen in photographs and in the logs supplied. These were recorded in a sheltered ‘back yard’.  These logs did not record the peak events see earlier, unfortunately.
From 16:51 events were recorded inside. The Gammascout memory was downloaded when it was full. Outside natural background average is 0.10-0.12 micro Sv/hr, inside average ranges from 0.15-0.18 microSv/hr.

Further monitoring will take place in conditions when the wind direction is from the Tasman Sea. Further photographs await processing on 35 mm film.”

Here is the location of Dunedin. It is on the south island of New Zealand, what I considered to be one of the safest places on the planet, if a Nuclear disaster like Fukushima happened. So what is going on?

Latest potrblog video  provides a good explanation of what is happening with the jet stream air currents at present. A split in the jet stream  has occurred which is driving some of the Fukushima fallout radiation into the Southern Hemisphere.

Here is what "the main fake stream media" said about New Zealand. Remember folks, they are not telling us the truth, ever....okay maybe 10 per cent.

This was reported in at Stuff dot co dot NZ back in March of 2011:
Nuclear fallout would not affect New Zealand, expert says...People in New Zealand do not need to worry about radiation poisoning should a quake-damaged nuclear power plant in Japan suffer a catastrophic meltdown, an expert says.

Should there be radioactive fallout from the facilities, it would not affect the southern hemisphere, GNS Science senior scientist Bernard Barry said.

Troubles at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in Fukushima province were set in motion when last Friday's magnitude 9 quake and tsunami in Japan's northeast knocked out power, crippling the cooling systems needed to keep nuclear fuel from going into full meltdown even weeks after a reactor shuts down.

There have since been three explosions at the plant, and a fourth reactor has caught fire.

However, even if the reactor cores were to melt and remain within the reactor vessel, consequences for the general population would be minimal, Dr Barry said.

Link to source: http://bit.ly/eenmKY