New research reveals more Australians are ignoring potential health risks when heading overseas as one business traveller, who contracted a debilitating virus while working in PNG, sues her employer for failing to provide critical information on the dangers.
"If I had more knowledge I probably would not have gone in the first place and I would have my life," she said.
"The criteria they based my percentage of impairment on has got nothing to do with Chikungunya or mosquito-borne disease, so then [the percentage] comes out very low. However, it said there was also a Composite Medical Assessment Tribunal that could be convened in cases where there were multiple interrelated injuries.Dr Deborah Mills, who has worked as a travel doctor for 30 years, said many workplaces were not across emerging risks overseas.
"They haven't really come to grips with the ramifications of these chronic infectious diseases, which hammer the immune system and really can hang on for years."
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