Amanda Gillies

And also, Michael, how dangerous actually is it?

And what sort of symptoms do people get?

How bad can they get?

And obviously a Kiwi was caught up in this cruise ship.

A New Zealand passenger who was on board the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has left the stricken vessel, according to the World Health Organisation, WHO.

Obviously in quarantine at the moment, but how worrying is that for our country?

Michael, what actually is this?

It feels like it's been around forever.

But for those who are thinking, what is Ebola?

What is it?

has no approved vaccine.

How much harder does that make for containment?

Is it hard to get health workers to get there or to get help people with the dead because of how contagious and deadly it is?

Do you think the response by the World Health Organisation, the plans that are getting put in place, are they adequate?

Is it going to help or work to get this contained?

How prepared are we in New Zealand?

How prepared is our health system for diseases like Ebola or the Hunter virus if they ever did arrive here?

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has long made his feelings for the WHO very clear.

Your message then to the government right now on that?

Do you think this is a bit of pushback because of COVID and then the reaction that was in New Zealand, you know, after the lockdowns in here, that it's just such a hot topic that they are pushing back a little bit on this?