Dr Luke O'Neill

It lies dormant in your body.

So therefore, it's going to take a few weeks to sort this out because they've got a contact.

Remember that phrase about contact tracing?

Yeah.

They're connecting with everybody who came in touch with these people.

Well, there's a woman in Alicante who was on a flight with one of the people who left the cruise ship and went to South Africa.

She was very sick.

This woman got off the plane and this woman then turns out to have symptoms.

Now, it hasn't been confirmed yet.

if it is Hanta.

But it could be because if you're stuck on a plane for hours with someone beside you coughing all over you, there's a chance you might pick up the virus.

And there's a second case, Pat, on Tristan de Cunha.

If someone got off the ship, they may have passed it on to a man.

His symptoms look like Hanta, but neither of those have been confirmed to be Hanta yet.

No.

And have you seen the headlines?

I was waiting to come on.

I picked up the star outside the studio here.

They're calling it the rat plague ship.

Well, now you need to be obviously a bit of caution is justified.