a woman in cains QLD is being checked in to hospital and test are being made

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Cobra said..
a woman in cains QLD is being checked in to hospital and test are being made

At first I didnt beleive you. Sorry.

Cairns Ebola scare:
\Woman under observation in hospital, Red Cross worker had been in Sierra LeoneUpdated 13 minutes agoThu 9 Oct 2014, 1:03pmA 57-year-old woman is under observation in Cairns Hospital in far north Queensland over fears she may have the deadly Ebola virus.The Cairns local recently returned from Sierra Leone where she was working with the Red Cross helping to treat patients of the outbreak.Queensland's Chief Health Office Dr Jeannette Young said the woman wore personal protective equipment at all times while in the country, and they were not breached at any stage.She said testing was underway to ensure all necessary precautions were being taken.The woman's test results are expected to be known in the early hours of Friday morning.

More to come.First posted 24 minutes ago

.hopefully she is clear for hers and everyone else's sake .its noble and brave for her to help the people over there but Ithis disease is serious and I really think that our health officials need to have better quarantine in place .my grandpa ran the quarantine station in sydney it was not uncommon for people returning from disease hotspots to be isolated there for whatever time any of the diseases in the are they has come from needed .eg you return from an Ebola hotspot you stay isolated for however long the disease can take to show up .i think it's two weeks. it needs to be a global effort too .just doing this here won't be enough .

FFS just close the borders of these countries... What a joke.

###its noble and brave for her to help the people over there but##
If AU want to help there are many ways- but its also irresponsible top allow volunteers to fly into a area risking everybody saftey - not just her own.

We need to close our boards from anybody coming into AU that has been in any areas infected- End of story.

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antisense said..
FFS just close the borders of these countries... What a joke.

How how does one "close the boarder" to a country?

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bing1 said..
If AU want to help there are many ways- but its also irresponsible top allow volunteers to fly into a area risking everybody saftey - not just her own.

She has risked no one but her own safety in no greater way than any person who travels to a foreign country does.
Is she risking Australia's biointegrity any more than a person who travels to a country where TB is still around? Polio?

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TheWolf said...

antisense said..
FFS just close the borders of these countries... What a joke.

How how does one "close the boarder" to a country?

bing1 said..
If AU want to help there are many ways- but its also irresponsible top allow volunteers to fly into a area risking everybody saftey - not just her own.

She has risked no one but her own safety in no greater way than any person who travels to a foreign country does.
Is she risking Australia's biointegrity any more than a person who travels to a country where TB is still around? Polio?

So if you lot were trapped in a burning car, you prefer people to watch? Or help?

She is a liability and shouldn't be let back in the country.


8 October 2014 at 9:16amSpanish nurse 'unsure' how she contracted Ebola
>A Spanish nurse, who is thought to be the first person to have contracted Ebola outside Africa, said she is unsure how she became contaminated and is certain she followed all of the protocols.

Reference. www.itv.com/news/update/2014-10-08/spanish-nurse-unsure-how-she-contracted-ebola/
Yep all under control.

Slow moving virus with early stages being untraceable spread of virus unknown high mortality no cure no quarantine measures in place.
Whats even more disturbing is the fact in Africa they are not cremating the infected bodies.
could lay dormant untill exposed for years on a host.

Truth is they dont really have a clue Expect them numbers under the "snowball effect" to rise dramatically

Why send in troops? shut down the airports to infected countries . (originally 1 then 2 then 3 country).... oh bit to late for that...

I had to go re-read the topic title again. Based on the postings I thought for a second that the topic was titled "Who can be the biggest, most selfish b@stard to fellow human beings who aren't like me".

Not scare mongering, but if these helpers are protecting themselves, then one must ask, is there a probablity that there are methods of transmission we are not currently aware of.

EDIT: Just thinking about it too, the people who are jumping in and helping, they are Heros.....forget the football players and lady gagas. I dont think id be running towards an ebola patient too soon.

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ONYX said..
is there a probablity that there are methods of transmission we are not currently aware of.

Sounds like a question for Eugene Kaspersky

Didn't have it....

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Rails said..
Didn't have it....

Didn't stop the QLD murdoch rag going completely off the rails in a 3 page fear fest bonanza. Anything to prop up a dying media empire another day..

The wife is a practitioner in qld health ,she said they have been waiting for it to land here.they being staff.

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Cambodge said...
I had to go re-read the topic title again. Based on the postings I thought for a second that the topic was titled "Who can be the biggest, most selfish b@stard to fellow human beings who aren't like me".

Hell you made me read it

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kiteboy dave said..

Didn't stop the QLD murdoch rag going completely off the rails in a 3 page fear fest bonanza. Anything to prop up a dying media empire another day..

In the good old days when the Internet was a University research tool, I first learnt of Ebola in the NT News (Murdoch owed) that describing it as the "melting disease" and would turn a healthy person into a pool of blood in a matter of days. During that outbreak in Africa, I remember there being a more proactive approach by the African governments (ie: closing borders, shutting down airports as people have suggested here). Maybe they read the same news article ?

Latest news is the nurse in Cairns has been cleared as an Ebola victim.

Glad she's been cleared, but when you look at the predicted rate of transmission in comparison to the virus control/ treatment centres/ other scientific and medical input, this is gonna be big.

The ebola species that has a 21 incubation period will become selected for (due to late detection) and will increase in frequency wherever the virus can be transmitted.

Thank god Australia has lots of isolated places, and NZ generally has low enough population density in most places that hopefully there a few survivors left.


Anyone ever read that book "The Road"? I think I understand one possible context now, in hindsight



This is quite an interesting read on Ebola stuff, hopefully the video plays in Australia... www.stuff.co.nz/world/62338317/ebola-why-the-experts-are-scared