The 57-year-old volunteer nurse with the Red Cross had spent a month looking after Ebola patients in Sierra Leone
A woman has undergone tests for Ebola in Cairns hospital at an isolation unit.
The 57-year-old woman who recently returned from Sierra Leone was under observation, Queensland’s chief health officer, Jeanette Young, confirmed.
She had been in the west African country looking after Ebola patients for a month and returned to Australia on Tuesday, Young said. She was kept in home isolation and was admitted to hospital with a “low-grade” fever on Thursday.
She followed protocols to protect herself from the virus when treating the patients.
The woman, a volunteer nurse with the Red Cross, had done “everything appropriately”, Young said. She had no symptoms when she returned to the country, developing the fever only on Thursday morning.
Last month Queensland health authorities triggered contagious diseases protocols over a suspected Ebola case on the Gold Coast, but the man in question was cleared of having the virus.
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