THE entire state of Queensland is on measles alert with health authorities concerned the second confirmed case in Moranbah could see the virus spread elsewhere.
A miner first contracted the virus after returning from a holiday to Thailand earlier this month. Now, a nurse who treated him at the Moranbah Medical Centre has been infected. Queensland Health is working to contact up to 400 people who may have been exposed while the nurse worked at the clinic between Tuesday May 14 and 11am on Thursday May 16. MINING towns are becoming dangerously reliant on mining companies funnelling millions of dollars into community projects, according to new research.
A study by University of Melbourne researcher Dr Sara Bice has found the big miners’ well-intentioned funding programs can have unforeseen and undesirable consequences. “Mining companies are pumping millions of dollars into certain remote towns. But as mining booms, ports expand and exports increase, these communities are facing an identity crisis,” said Dr Bice, from the University’s School of Social and Political Sciences. IF YOU are thinking of getting a tattoo in Moranbah or its surrounds, think again because you could be putting your health at risk, warns the Isaac Regional Council.
There are no licensed tattoo services registered in the region and this is encouraging travelling artists to work from unlicensed home or portable studios. “We received notification of unlicensed tattooists offering services in the Isaac region through a series of complaints and conversation threads on a community facebook page during March,” Isaac Regional Council Mayor Anne Baker told the WINO.
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