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Health bosses: We overreacted to airport flu scare

• www.tvnz.co.nz
They swung into action after it was suspected dozens of Japanese students who had just landed had contracted the flu.
 
While ambulance staff were ready for the worst, the students at the centre of the scare came through the arrival gates, wondering what all the fuss was about.

Their flight, NZ90 from Tokyo, was halted on the tarmac just after 9am this morning with 73 of the Japanese homestay students onboard suspected of carrying an unknown strain of influenza.

One passenger on the flight, David Turner from Wellington, said there were air staff everywhere, all wearing masks, "just sort of shepherding us to different places".

 

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