First hendra tests on Qld woman negative
Initial blood tests from the Rockhampton adult woman who suffered high-level exposure to the hendra virus piece caring for a critically sick foal cause got come upward dorsum negative.
“This way the patient does non forthwith cause got hendra virus together with this gives us some confidence,” Queensland’s principal wellness officer, Dr Jeannette Young, said.
“However, to endure absolutely certain, the patient volition continue to endure monitored together with blood tests volition endure taken 1 time again inward iii weeks together with six weeks time.”
The adult woman was offered, together with has accepted, the experimental monoclonal antibody treatment which scientists believe may avert fatal infections inward those exposed.
“The incubation menstruum for hendra virus infection inward humans is 5-21 days, together with nosotros know that the monoclonal antibodies must endure given earlier whatever symptoms begin,” Young said.
“The patient does non currently cause got any symptoms.
“I tin besides confirm that the patient today received an infusion of monoclonal antibodies without whatever adverse reaction,” she said.
Authorities catch that the woman’s partner together with a veterinary who sustained low-level exposure together with were non at risk.
The property, a hobby farm, has been quarantined together with ii horses together with ii dogs that alive at that spot are beingness monitored. They are showing no signs of illness.
The foal’s decease final weekend is the 5th Hendra representative inward Queensland this year.
Three cardinal Queensland properties merely about Mackay rest under quarantine afterward a Equus caballus tested positive to the bat-borne virus final month.
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