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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to the Quickie. I'm Taylor Strano. You

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Speaker 2: might have seen headlines about the deadly mep for virus

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Speaker 2: over the weekend and wondered, well, is this the next COVID.

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Speaker 2: We're going to break down what the virus actually is,

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Speaker 2: where it is in the world right now, and what

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Speaker 2: Australian health officials are saying about the risk. First, Claire

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Speaker 2: Murphy's Got You News headlines for Monday, February.

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Speaker 1: Two, Thanks Taylor or Lives will be on Canberra Today

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Speaker 1: with Andrew Hasty taking himself out of contention to vibe

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Speaker 1: for the leadership of the Liberals. Hasty and fellow Conservative

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Speaker 1: colleague Angus Taylor had previously been locked in a stand

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Speaker 1: off as to which one of them would go up

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Speaker 1: against Susan Lee for the leadership, but with both representing

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Speaker 1: the Conservative faction, it would have made it difficult for

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Speaker 1: either of them to secure enough votes. Hasty released a

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Speaker 1: statement on Friday confirming he would not seek the Opposition leadership, saying,

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Speaker 1: having consulted with colleagues over the past week and respecting

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Speaker 1: their honest feedback to me, it is clear that I

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Speaker 1: do not have the support needed to become leader of

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Speaker 1: the Liberal Party. There is speculation that a leadership spill

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Speaker 1: is now a matter of not if, but when mister

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Speaker 1: Taylor praised Hasty in a post on social media but

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Speaker 1: didn't make his own leadership intentions clear. Meanwhile, the fallout

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Speaker 1: from the coalition split will be felt in Canberra today,

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Speaker 1: with Queensland MP Colin Boyce attempting to trigger a spill

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Speaker 1: motion against National's leader David little Proud as politicians descend

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Speaker 1: on Canberra for the return of federal Parliament. Several Nationals

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Speaker 1: members expect the motion will fail to trigger a vote

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Speaker 1: on mister Little Prowd's leadership as it will need the

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Speaker 1: backing of a colleague in the party room. The US

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice released three point five million more pages

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Speaker 1: in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: and it names a couple of assies. Clive Palmer, the

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Speaker 1: Queensland billionaire and former MP, denies that his twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: federal election campaign was influenced by Steve Bannen, President Trump's

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Speaker 1: former chief strategist in messages to convicted sex offender Jeffrey

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Speaker 1: Epstein shared two days after Scott Morrison's Liberal National Coalition

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Speaker 1: government won the election. Bannon says, I had Clive Palmer

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Speaker 1: do the sixty million dollar anti China and climate change ads.

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Speaker 1: The election win was largely credited to a huge increase

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Speaker 1: in Coalition voters in Queensland, where mister Palmer is based.

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Speaker 1: Another Australian named in the Epstein files is former PM

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Speaker 1: Kevin Rudd. Epstein seemed to be looking to increase his

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Speaker 1: network of political and financial contacts, mister Rudd's name appearing

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Speaker 1: in severally males, both sent to and from Epstein, showing

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Speaker 1: how third parties had attempted to secure his attendance at

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Speaker 1: events hosted by Epstein, including an invitation to his home

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Speaker 1: in New York. Mister Rand denies having ever met Epstein,

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Speaker 1: and the emails don't show any confirmation that the pair

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Speaker 1: ever met in person. Iran's Supreme Leader Iotolajmani says if

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Speaker 1: the US attax Iran, it will become a regional war.

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Speaker 1: Hermani also told Iranian state television we are not the

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Speaker 1: instagators and we do not seek to attack any country,

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Speaker 1: but the Iranian nation will deliver a firm blow to

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Speaker 1: anyone who attacks or harasses it. He also compared the

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Speaker 1: nationwide protests that challenges Iran's regime to a coup. The

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Speaker 1: comments Kamas. Tens of thousands of people are reportedly detained

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Speaker 1: in Iran after the protests. Seditious charges in Iran can

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Speaker 1: carry the death penalty, which again renews concerns about Tehran

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Speaker 1: carrying out mass executions for those arrested. The mass killing

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Speaker 1: laid down by the US President Donald Trump for potentially

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Speaker 1: using military force against the country. Trump said on January

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Speaker 1: twenty second that an armada was heading towards Iran. Multiple

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Speaker 1: sources said that Trump was weighing options against Iran that

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Speaker 1: included targeted strikes on security forces, but Trump told Fox

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Speaker 1: News correspondent Jackie Henrich that Iran was negotiating, so we'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens. Israel says it has reopened the critical

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Speaker 1: Rafa border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, but only in

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Speaker 1: a limit capacity. Palestinian security officers joining an EU mission

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Speaker 1: that will be supervising exited entry and ambulance have since

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Speaker 1: crossed through the Egyptian gate. The head of the new

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Speaker 1: Palestinian Administration committee governing Gaza's Daily Affairs has said travel

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Speaker 1: in both directions would start from today. Rafa, which Palestinians

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Speaker 1: see as their gateway to the world, has been largely

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Speaker 1: twenty four. About twenty thousand Palestinian children and adults needing

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Speaker 1: the crossing, while thousands of other Palestinians outside the territory

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Speaker 1: are hoping to return home. Meanwhile, overnight, Israel pounded the

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Speaker 1: since the October Seasfire, killing more than thirty people, including

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Speaker 1: three girls from one family, in attacks on houses, tents,

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Speaker 1: responding to a breach of the seas fire the previous day,

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Speaker 1: in which its troops had identified eight gunmen emerging from

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Speaker 1: a tunnel in Rufa, an area in the south of

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Speaker 1: the enclave controlled by Israeli forces. The IDF said they

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Speaker 1: targeted commanders, weapons cases, and manufacturing sites belonging to Palestinian

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Speaker 1: militant group Hamas and its ally Islamic g had Hamas,

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Speaker 1: which retains control of just under half of the Gaza Strip,

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Speaker 1: where nearly all its more than two million residents live,

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Speaker 1: mainly in makeshift tens and damaged buildings, said Israel had

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Speaker 1: violated the truth. Shaka Khan, Sher Carlos Santana, Paul Simon,

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Speaker 1: Phila Kuti, and Whitney Houston have received Lifetime Achievement Awards

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Speaker 1: from the Recording Academy at the Grammy Special Merit Awards.

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Speaker 1: Shaka Khan was the only one to attend the ceremony

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Speaker 1: in person, saying music has been my prayer, my healing,

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Speaker 1: my joy, my truth. Through it, I saved my life.

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Speaker 1: Family accepted the Lifetime Achievement awards for Nigerian afrobeat legend Couti,

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Speaker 1: who died in nineteen ninety seven, and for superstar Whitney Houston,

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Speaker 1: who died in twenty twelve. The Grammy ceremony will begin

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Speaker 1: around eleven am, Australi in Eastern daylight saving time today,

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Speaker 1: with Kendrick Lamar leading the nominations with nine, followed by

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Speaker 1: Lady Gaga and produces Circuit and Jack anton Off with seven.

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Speaker 1: Album of the Year could see some history made if

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Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar or Tyler the creator win, they'll be the

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Speaker 1: first solo male rappers to do so. If Bad Bunny wins,

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Speaker 1: he'll be the first Spanish language artist to win Best

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Speaker 1: New Artist. Nominees Adison Ray, Alex Warren, Katzi, lee On,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Olivia, Dean Somber and The Marias will put on

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Speaker 1: a special performance. Justin Bieber will make his return to

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Speaker 1: the show for the first time in four years, with

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Speaker 1: performances also from Sabrina Carpenter, Freeh Williams and Bruno Mars.

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Speaker 1: Comedian Trevoroa is hosting again for his sixth and reportedly

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Speaker 1: final time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Clan. Next, the Nepa virus explained. Before you embrace

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Speaker 2: yourself for another pandemic, let's get the fact straight. Nepa

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Speaker 2: virus is a zoonotic disease, meaning it jumps from animals

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen and ibola. Lives in fruit, bats, and can

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Speaker 2: also infect other animals like pigs, dogs, cats, sheep, and horses.

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Speaker 2: Humans most commonly catch it by consuming fruit or fruit

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Speaker 2: products that have been contaminated with urin or saliva from

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Speaker 2: infected bats, or through close contact with infected animals. The

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Speaker 2: World Health Organization estimates mepa's fatality rate at around forty

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Speaker 2: to seventy five percent, depending on how quickly people are

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Speaker 2: licensed vaccine. Patients with severe infection need intensive supportive care

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Speaker 2: in hospital. It can spread between people, but here's where

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Speaker 2: it differs from COVID. It's usually only contracted through very close,

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Speaker 2: prolonged contact, like caring for someone who's sick, as opposed

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Speaker 2: to airborne contamination like we saw during the height of

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Speaker 2: the recent pandemic. Doctor Allison Peel is a veterinarian and

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Speaker 2: wildlife disease ecologist at the University of Sydney. She says,

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Speaker 2: unlike COVID nineteen, the way Neeper is transmitted me it's

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Speaker 2: less likely to rapidly spread.

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Speaker 3: People tend to get sick recently, quickly, and get very sick.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't move long distances like it can with COVID,

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Speaker 3: where people can be excreting virus and not even feeling

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Speaker 3: unwell at all. Yeah, there hasn't been any known international

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Speaker 3: spread or sort of larger regional spread when there's been

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Speaker 3: an outbreak because it all happens very locally, very quickly.

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Speaker 2: Symptoms usually show up between four days and three weeks

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Speaker 2: after infection. Doctor Allison says they start with sudden flu

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Speaker 2: like illness.

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Speaker 3: Typical symptoms of a viral infection fever. It can involve

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Speaker 3: symptoms of affecting the brain, so headaches and confusion or

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Speaker 3: ultimately seizures. It can affect your lungs sort of in

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Speaker 3: breathing difficulties or costs, and just general flu like symptoms.

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Speaker 2: Right now, the focus is on India, where Heal's authorities

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Speaker 2: have already confirmed two cases in the state of westpne

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Speaker 2: Gul since December and identified, tested and monitored close to

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Speaker 2: two hundred contacts, all of whom have so far tested

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Speaker 2: negative and remain asymptomatic. Countries across Asia have tightened airport

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Speaker 2: screening for travelers arriving from affected areas, with temperature checks,

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Speaker 2: health declarations and designated gates for some flights. But what

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Speaker 2: does this all mean for Australians. The Federal Health Minister

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Speaker 2: says authorities are taking the threat very seriously, but that

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Speaker 2: human to human transmission is difficult and there's no advice

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Speaker 2: arriving here. The Australian Center for Disease Control says NEPA

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Speaker 2: but they're monitoring the situation and urge travelers to India, Bangladesh, Malaysia,

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Speaker 2: advice is if you're heading to areas where NEPA circulates,

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Speaker 2: avoid contact with animals, especially fruit, bats and pigs, and

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Speaker 2: places where bats roost. They also say to wash and

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Speaker 2: areas with fats. Don't drink raw or fermented date palm,

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Speaker 2: infection control if you're around anyone who's on well. They

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Speaker 2: also say to check these Smart Traveler and CDC websites

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Speaker 2: I asked Allison if she thinks we're on the brink

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Speaker 2: of another global pandemic, and I'm happy to report she

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Speaker 2: does not.

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Speaker 3: The outbreak in India has been contained for a number

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Speaker 3: the flying foxes that carry nippervirus and it's unlikely to

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Speaker 3: get here through any other means. Of course, we do

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Speaker 3: have hindrovirus in flying foxes here, and we're well versed

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Speaker 3: here in managing the risk associated with hendrovirus. People who

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Speaker 3: own horses can vaccinate their horses to prevent hndrovirus infection,

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Speaker 3: or if they have a very unwell horsed then better

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Speaker 3: again well trained in recognizing the symptoms of hendrovirus and

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Speaker 3: undertaking appropriate testing and public health follow up as a result.

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Speaker 3: This current situation is no call for alarm.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with

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Speaker 2: by me Taylor Strano, Laria Brophy and Clare Murphy, with

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