2007-04-10 04:20:22 · 9 answers · asked by Jessica B 4 in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
it is there but very controlled.
2007-04-10 04:23:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
While animal rabies has never been reported in Australia or New Zealand there is the potential for the virus to be introduced into Australia from other countries
Addit info - Three people have died of rabies in Australia: an unconfirmed case in 1867, and two recent cases in 1987 and 1990. Both recent cases were undiagnosed before death. This was not surprising since there was no history or recent travel outside Australia.
The first case was a 9-year-old boy who died in Brisbane. The likely source of the virus was a monkey bite in India 16 months before the illness. The second case was a 10-year-old girl who died in Sydney from encephalitis in 1990. This girl was a Vietnamese immigrant who had come from North Vietnam to Australia via Hong Kong. The presumed incubation period was very long, at least 6 years and 3 months
2007-04-10 09:08:15 · answer #2 · answered by renclrk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No rabies, no foot and mouth disease, the only malaria is what someone has brought in with them, virtually no tuberculosis or leprosy, diphtheria is unheard of, no cholera, no smallpox, no yellow fever, no sleeping sickness and no elephantaisis. No plague either.
You can get dengue in some parts of the country and there are diseases like Murray Valley encephalitis but they are rare. Colds, flu, measles, chicken pox of course.
2007-04-10 23:10:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fruits have evolved with a biological purpose - and that is to spread seeds. That's why they taste good and are convenient to eat, so that animals (including humans) will eat the fruits and drop the seeds where the filial plants will not have to compete with the parent tree. "Ah, but bananas don't have seeds," you say. Well, no, the bananas we buy at the grocery store don't, but that's because they're grown that way. Bananas in the wild do have seeds.
2016-04-01 06:59:32 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True. The only other countries I know of without it are Britain and Norway.
2007-04-10 13:47:11 · answer #5 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is none in New Zealand, can't speak for Australia.
2007-04-12 18:13:32 · answer #6 · answered by Murray H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely true. The quarentine rules and the oceans keep it that way. Geogrphy has spared our nation this problem, quarentine keeps it that way.
2007-04-10 08:58:54 · answer #7 · answered by jpturboprop 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, this is true, we have very strict quarantine and customs ... ... ...
2007-04-10 04:23:17 · answer #8 · answered by melark 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
correct so if you have it please stay away from here
2007-04-10 12:12:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋