Ross River Virus -- Australia
[The Ross River virus] rate of infection skyrocketed in Bendigo during 2017, but the state's health department says the chance of contracting it -- and other mosquitoborne diseases -- this summer [2017-2018] is low.
Department of Health statistics show there were 80 cases of Ross River in the Bendigo region in the past 12 months, up from just 12 in the previous year -- an increase of almost 600 per cent. That figure jumps to 396 when cases from across the entire Loddon Mallee region are
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