The Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) advises that there is a low risk to peoples’ health following positive results for Legionella bacteria from routine monthly testing of several cooling towers in the Auckland CBD.

An international passenger arriving in Auckland aboard flight Air New Zealand, NZ734 from Brisbane on 28 November 2007 has been diagnosed with English measles (morbilli).

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) made a routine response this morning to an international flight from Korea. A passenger on board was reported as being unwell with vomiting and a raised temperature. The airport authorities called the ARPHS on-call Medical Officer of Health in accordance with standard response procedures.

Exposure to formaldehyde can be reduced by washing clothing before it is worn for the first time says the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS).

Be active 30 minutes every day, your way with Feetbeat – an eight week physical activity challenge for workplaces in the Auckland region starting on 10 September 2007.

Saint Paul’s College in Ponsonby has won a concert on Wednesday 22 August from New Zealand hip hop stars Ill Semantics by participating in ‘Look Good Kai’ (LGK), a school canteen healthy eating promotion run by Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS).

Great prizes have been up for grabs at several Auckland schools promoting healthy food choices in their school canteens as part of the ‘Look Good Kai’ programme with Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS).

Anyone travelling to the Pacific, particularly the Cook Islands, should take precautions to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, as there has been a significant increase in the number of reported cases of Dengue fever in travellers since the beginning of the year.

The Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) continues to investigate the Typhoid fever cases in South Auckland.  Dr Julia Peters, clinical director at ARPHS, says the results are still coming in but those results they have so far are negative.

Over the past few weeks, the Auckland Regional Public Health Service has been investigating four Typhoid fever cases in South Auckland.

Keeping tanks clean is important to avoid the threat of disease from roof water says the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS).