Article from The Mercury :
" TASMANIA'S first confirmed case of measles in two years has been detected in Burnie.
The rest of the state has been warned to be on the lookout for early symptoms of the disease to prevent it spreading further.
Four people arriving in Melbourne on an Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur on April 1 were found to have the highly contagious virus, which they could have caught overseas.
The Victorian Health Department is following up other passengers from that flight.
But another passenger from the flight, a 26-year-old Victorian woman, later came to Tasmania on the Spirit of Tasmania on the April 11-12 crossing.
She became ill during the crossing and mixed with other passengers in the early part of the trip, which means others in Tasmania could be infected.
State public health deputy director Chrissie Pickin said the woman also visited the emergency department of the North-West Regional Hospital in Burnie so anyone who visited there from April 12-15 could also have been exposed."
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Australia : Flu victim still on critical list
Via The Mercury :
" A PREGNANT woman with swine flu remained in a critical but stable condition in intensive care in the Royal Hobart Hospital last night.
Public health director Roscoe Taylor said the young woman, who is well advanced in her pregnancy, was admitted to hospital on Monday.
The woman, who is visiting Tasmania from a Middle-Eastern country, arrived in the state late last week and became ill over the weekend.
"We believe she was in transit when she contracted the swine flu, [we believe] it wasn't contracted in Tasmania," Dr Taylor said.
He said the woman had had minimal contact with other people since arriving in Hobart.
He could not give an update on the health of her unborn baby.
"This case is a strong reminder of the fact that pregnant women are at greater risk from influenza," he said.
Dr Taylor said that as the woman was likely to have contracted H1N1 while in transit, her case was unlikely to be an indication of a "second wave" of the flu hitting Tasmania."
" A PREGNANT woman with swine flu remained in a critical but stable condition in intensive care in the Royal Hobart Hospital last night.
Public health director Roscoe Taylor said the young woman, who is well advanced in her pregnancy, was admitted to hospital on Monday.
The woman, who is visiting Tasmania from a Middle-Eastern country, arrived in the state late last week and became ill over the weekend.
"We believe she was in transit when she contracted the swine flu, [we believe] it wasn't contracted in Tasmania," Dr Taylor said.
He said the woman had had minimal contact with other people since arriving in Hobart.
He could not give an update on the health of her unborn baby.
"This case is a strong reminder of the fact that pregnant women are at greater risk from influenza," he said.
Dr Taylor said that as the woman was likely to have contracted H1N1 while in transit, her case was unlikely to be an indication of a "second wave" of the flu hitting Tasmania."
Friday, July 30, 2010
Australia : Swine flu hits mum-to-be
Via The Mercury :
" A PREGNANT woman with swine flu was in a critical condition in the Royal Hobart Hospital last night.
Public health director Roscoe Taylor said the patient, an overseas visitor, was being treated in intensive care.
The H1N1 strain, or human swine flu, was confirmed last night by laboratory tests.
It was Tasmania's fifth case so far this year, of which three cases were overseas travellers who developed their illness after arrival, Dr Taylor said.
"This case is a reminder of the need for clinicians to be alert in their assessment of travellers reporting illness after arriving in Tasmania, so any signs of swine flu can be identified early and people at higher risk of serious illness [such as pregnant women] treated with antivirals," Dr Taylor said.
"It's also a reminder of the importance of being vaccinated against H1N1. As we saw last year, H1N1 can be very serious, even for ordinarily healthy people, and our first line of defence is vaccination."
" A PREGNANT woman with swine flu was in a critical condition in the Royal Hobart Hospital last night.
Public health director Roscoe Taylor said the patient, an overseas visitor, was being treated in intensive care.
The H1N1 strain, or human swine flu, was confirmed last night by laboratory tests.
It was Tasmania's fifth case so far this year, of which three cases were overseas travellers who developed their illness after arrival, Dr Taylor said.
"This case is a reminder of the need for clinicians to be alert in their assessment of travellers reporting illness after arriving in Tasmania, so any signs of swine flu can be identified early and people at higher risk of serious illness [such as pregnant women] treated with antivirals," Dr Taylor said.
"It's also a reminder of the importance of being vaccinated against H1N1. As we saw last year, H1N1 can be very serious, even for ordinarily healthy people, and our first line of defence is vaccination."
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