Patient infected by ambulance driver – SWINE FLU IN TASMANIA
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Patient infected by ambulance driver – SWINE FLU IN TASMANIA
Tasmania Examiner
A NRTH-WEST ambulance driver has infected a patient with swine flu taking to 10 the number of Tasmanians with the virus. “Unfortunately we believe transmission of the virus would have occurred before we became aware of the paramedic's situation” acting Director of Public Health Chrissie Pickin said. Tasmania is dealing with relatively low numbers of confirmed cases and at this stage with no probable cases she said. “The most recent case was a patient who had come into contact with a North-West ambulance paramedic confirmed with swine flu” Dr Pickin said. “The new case was already in home quarantine during the infectious period so there are no further close contacts at risk or who need to be followed up. ” Last week the North-West ambulance service had 13 staff unavailable because of swine flu. Yesterday the number was down to seven with two confirmed cases and five who were contacts of a confirmed case or showing swine flu symptoms.
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Review | It’s civilized conquerors vs. miserable savages in ‘Wanting’
MiamiHerald.com
Wanting is a smaller novel than Gould’s Book of Fish Flanagan’s masterpiece inspired by Tasmanian history but its geographical scope is broader as it repeatedly jumps far from that mysterious island to events in England and even the Arctic. In each of these diverse but oddly related settings Flanagan charts the wreckage done by people convinced that repressing their desires — and others’ — is the key to civilization. The book begins on Flinders Island where Tasmania’s aborigines have been forcibly resettled with disastrous results. Inexplicably — to those in charge — these native people have not welcomed the invaders as liberators but have resisted all the civilizing improvements pressed upon them which include a host of infectious diseases that are finishing off what a program of genocide began. As usual Flanagan is brilliant at re-creating this ”weird land predating time with its vulgar rainbow colours its vile huge forests and bizarre animals that seemed to have been lost since Adam’s exile. ” Everything here is simultaneously fecund and rotting such as ‘a small meadow glistening with so many wet spiders’ webs that it seemed veiled in a sticky gossamer. ”But the people determined to settle this primeval land live in a state of denial convinced of their immunity from moral judgment.
Chefs follow produce to Tassie
The Age
“It’s better than the quail we get fromFrance in flavour quality everything. No Victorian chefs appeared in Hobart but many are big fans ofTasmanian produce. Scott Pickett executive chef of The Point in Albert Park ismore than willing to talk Tasmania. “We’ve got a lot of Tasmanianproduct here” he says. “The Woodbridge smoked trout is great. Wechanged our beef suppliers in the last 12 months and we now getour grass-fed beef from Cape Grimm.
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