Sally Furniss
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Adelaide nurses test positive to swine flu
Two nurses in South Australia and a prisoner in New South Wales have been confirmed as having swine flu.
SA Health says two nurses at Adelaide hospitals have tested positive for the swine flu virus.
One nurse works at the Royal Adelaide and the second works at Lyell McEwin.
A total of seven patients who came into contact with the nurses have been given Tamiflu, but SA Health says they are not seriously ill.
The state's chief medical officer, Professor Paddy Phillips, says the virus is spreading among the community as expected.
"Clearly there's going to be more staff members, healthcare workers as well as policemen, firemen, office workers, all types of workers will be coming down with this bug," he said.
"Our aim is to protect those who are vulnerable and whose immune systems are suppressed by illness or medications."
The New South Wales prisoner is the second to have tested positive to swine flu in the state's prison system.
A Corrective Services Department spokeswoman says the 35-year-old male inmate was jailed a week ago and is now in isolation after contracting the H1N1 virus.
She will not identify the prison concerned but says the infection is not related to another positive test at Silverwater Jail in Sydney's west.
A female inmate tested positive on Friday and is also in isolation. It is thought she contracted the virus from a visitor.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/28/2610640.htm
Two nurses in South Australia and a prisoner in New South Wales have been confirmed as having swine flu.
SA Health says two nurses at Adelaide hospitals have tested positive for the swine flu virus.
One nurse works at the Royal Adelaide and the second works at Lyell McEwin.
A total of seven patients who came into contact with the nurses have been given Tamiflu, but SA Health says they are not seriously ill.
The state's chief medical officer, Professor Paddy Phillips, says the virus is spreading among the community as expected.
"Clearly there's going to be more staff members, healthcare workers as well as policemen, firemen, office workers, all types of workers will be coming down with this bug," he said.
"Our aim is to protect those who are vulnerable and whose immune systems are suppressed by illness or medications."
The New South Wales prisoner is the second to have tested positive to swine flu in the state's prison system.
A Corrective Services Department spokeswoman says the 35-year-old male inmate was jailed a week ago and is now in isolation after contracting the H1N1 virus.
She will not identify the prison concerned but says the infection is not related to another positive test at Silverwater Jail in Sydney's west.
A female inmate tested positive on Friday and is also in isolation. It is thought she contracted the virus from a visitor.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/28/2610640.htm