Posted on 10/26/2014 6:50:14 PM PDT by null and void
AN 18-year-old woman quarantined in the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital with a fever has tested negative for Ebola.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young announced the negative results this morning.
It is understood the woman will now undertake a second round of testing.
Dr Young said the 18-year-old would undergo a second Ebola test on Wednesday.
She said further tests were yet to reveal another cause for the teenager’s fever.
“She’ll now remain in isolation in the RBWH to have a second test done on Wednesday,” Dr Young said.
“She remains well at this stage. Her family, who continue in home quarantine are also all well.”
“If you take the first test very early on in the course of the disease, there mightn’t be enough virus circulating to be able to actually pick it up so that’s why the recommendation from the WHO and from America, from the Centre for Disease Control is that you need to do a second test three days down the track to confirm it.”
Dr Young said the teen was in good spirits and no longer had a fever.
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Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Awful headline. You could read that headline to mean more than one thing. (not blaming you, n&v...)
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
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