Posted on 10/26/2014 11:40:49 AM PDT by Nachum
NINETEEN people are being isolated in home quarantine in Brisbane as a precaution against spreading the Ebola virus, as a teenage woman undergoes tests for the deadly disease in hospital.
The 18-year-old is being kept in an isolation ward at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital after developing a fever yesterday.
She arrived in Australia 12 days ago from Conakry in Guinea, with eight members of her extended family, including six children.
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The group is one of four West African families who have arrived in Brisbane in the past couple of weeks from Ebola virus hot spots.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said they all had agreed to remain in home quarantine until the 21-day incubation period had expired.
“They’ve been extraordinarily co-operative. These people have gone directly from the airport into home quarantine,” Dr Young said.
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So why travel all the way to Austrailia? Is there something I am missing here?
Ping
Yup,you are...they have welfare offices too.
We have a fair few African’s in the neighborhood - very friendly lot. Mostly Christians and mostly, I would guess, from Nigeria. Over the last ten years there have been various African groups come to the country as refugees!
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