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Sydney arrival in bird flu scare
En resum?, un passager australien en provenance d'Hanoi manifeste les symptomes de la Grippe. L'occasion de tester la surveillance de la propagation ?ventuelle du Virus lors d'un vol commercial...
Sydney arrival in bird flu scare
An international traveller isbeing tested for bird flu after landing at Sydney Airport from Vietnam today.
Dr Jeremy McAnulty, director of communicable disease at NSW Health, said the suspect person is in their 30s.
"We understand that the person was relatively well but had some flu-like symptoms potentially in the last couple of days," he told a media conference.
"He was on the plane and was difficult to rouse in the morning time as it was about to land in Sydney.
"For that reason and the reason of a history of flu-like illness, being in Vietnam, in a plane, particularly around chickens, we wanted to exclude the possibility of avian influenza.''
He said further information since then suggested it was "very unlikely to be avian influenza''.
Other passengers on the Vietnam Airlines flight had not been contacted but NSW Health had all their details should that prove necessary.
Under Australian Quarantine laws all airlines are required to report ill passengers to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service prior to landing.
A Vietnam Airlines spokeswoman confirmed the man was on the flight from Hanoi that landed at 8.30am.
However, she would not comment further, saying the airline was awaiting a "full report''.
A Sydney Airport spokesman said the facility had little involvement in the matter as AQIS had taken control once the man had been reported ill.
The H5N1 virus has been confirmed in 55 countries and has caused 220 million bird deaths and 143 human deaths, the World Bank says.
- with David Braithwaite and AAP
Dr Jeremy McAnulty, director of communicable disease at NSW Health, said the suspect person is in their 30s.
"We understand that the person was relatively well but had some flu-like symptoms potentially in the last couple of days," he told a media conference.
"He was on the plane and was difficult to rouse in the morning time as it was about to land in Sydney.
"For that reason and the reason of a history of flu-like illness, being in Vietnam, in a plane, particularly around chickens, we wanted to exclude the possibility of avian influenza.''
He said further information since then suggested it was "very unlikely to be avian influenza''.
Other passengers on the Vietnam Airlines flight had not been contacted but NSW Health had all their details should that prove necessary.
Under Australian Quarantine laws all airlines are required to report ill passengers to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service prior to landing.
A Vietnam Airlines spokeswoman confirmed the man was on the flight from Hanoi that landed at 8.30am.
However, she would not comment further, saying the airline was awaiting a "full report''.
A Sydney Airport spokesman said the facility had little involvement in the matter as AQIS had taken control once the man had been reported ill.
The H5N1 virus has been confirmed in 55 countries and has caused 220 million bird deaths and 143 human deaths, the World Bank says.
- with David Braithwaite and AAP
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