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Nursing home overrun with redbacks

Residents in a south-west Queensland nursing home recently faced  an infestation of redback spiders which led staff to consider evacuating the centre.

Queensland Health considered moving the 43 residents of the Waroona Aged Care Centre at Charleville, so it could be fumigated after several spiders and nests were found on the premises.

But district chief executive officer, Maree Geraghty, says a pest controller has destroyed several nests and externally sprayed the premises. She says residents only needed to be moved within the complex.

“Charleville is out in a country area, it is the time when redbacks breed, I’m sure people in their houses and out on properties are coming across redbacks and it just happens that we’ve found some in the residential aged care facility.”

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