Typhoid detected on Christmas Island01:45 AEDT Mon Feb 27 2012



Asylum seekers on Christmas Island will have to wait to be transferred to mainland Australia, after typhoid fever was detected on the island.

The Immigration Department has confirmed that two crew members on separate asylum boats have been diagnosed with typhoid, The Australian reports.

The federal government has stopped flights from the island to the mainland while the Immigration Department and health authorities investigate and try to contain the disease, according to the paper.

Typhoid is a bacterial disease that causes symptoms such as fever, headache, rash and vomiting.

The disease is rarely seen in Australia.

Christmas Island's deputy administrator, Catherine Wildermuth, told residents in a newsletter that the risk of typhoid being passed on the community was extremely low, The Australian reported.




to bad if the residence do complain... I wonder if Ms Wildermuth lives on the Island???..

will the govt now broadcast travel warnings to Christmas Island on the Isle of Java???

red baron wrote on Feb 27^th, 2012 at 12:24pm:

Heres to hoping you get it