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Media is still underplaying the outbreak. They are still perpetuating the idea that ebola is hard to catch. IF it hasn't mutated it still has a mortality rate of 90 per cent.
Nurse with suspected Ebola isolated in Australia after return from Sierra Leone
Nurse with suspected Ebola isolated in Australia after return from Sierra Leone
A
57-year-old nurse has been isolated in Cairns, Australia, with
suspected Ebola following her return from Sierra Leone, one of the
centers of the epidemic. Health officials have confirmed the
information.
RT,
9
October, 2014
Chief
health officer Jeanette Young told the Sydney Morning Herald that the
nurse was working in a hospital treating Ebola victims in Sierra
Leone.
She
has been under quarantine at home since she returned Saturday. After
she developed a "low-grade fever" Thursday morning, she was
checked into Cairns Hospital at about 1pm.
Test
results could be available on Thursday evening or Friday afternoon,
health officials stated, as cited by Sydney Morning Herald.
Dr
Young said that the woman was working for the Red Cross in Sierra
Leone.
“As
recommended by national guidelines, this patient has been isolating
herself at home and checking her temperature twice daily since her
return, and today has reported an elevated temperature of 37.6
degrees,”
Dr Young told journalists, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The
woman did not pose any health risk to those she traveled with on the
plane from Sierra Leone to Australia, doctors said.
"While
Ebola is a very serious disease, it is not highly contagious as it
cannot be caught through coughing or sneezing,”
Dr. Young said. “A person is not infectious until they are unwell
with the disease.”
"The
risk of infection is extremely low unless there has been direct
exposure to the bodily fluids of an infected person or animal such as
vomit, blood or diarrhea,"
she added.
Meanwhile,
striking gravediggers in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone,
returned to work one day after they had walked out over pay,
abandoning dead
bodies
in the city.
The
latest suspected case of Ebola comes as the US and Canada have
declared increased airport screening measures to detect passengers
carrying the disease.
The
death toll from the fatal virus is nearing 3,900, with over 8,000
infected so far, according to the WHO’s latest figures.
Ebola:
Worsening Epidemic
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