Paranoia keeps Ebola health workers safe: Queensland doctor

By Cameron Atfield
Updated September 9 2014 - 3:21pm, first published 12:00am
Dr Jenny Stedmon says health workers in Ebola affected areas are being forced to take extreme measures to stay alive. Photo: Robert Shakespeare
Dr Jenny Stedmon says health workers in Ebola affected areas are being forced to take extreme measures to stay alive. Photo: Robert Shakespeare
Health workers take blood samples for Ebola testing at a screening tent in the local government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Photo: Reuters/Tommy Trenchard
Health workers take blood samples for Ebola testing at a screening tent in the local government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Photo: Reuters/Tommy Trenchard
A burial team removes the body an Ebola victim from an isolation ward in West Point, Monrovia. Photo: New York Times
A burial team removes the body an Ebola victim from an isolation ward in West Point, Monrovia. Photo: New York Times
Health workers surround an Ebola patient. Photo: REUTERS TV
Health workers surround an Ebola patient. Photo: REUTERS TV

A Queensland doctor who joined a Red Cross effort to help battle west Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak has spoken of the paranoia gripping health workers in the virus zone.

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