Murray Valley encephalitis -- Australia
South Australians have been warned that the risk of transmission of potentially deadly mosquito-borne diseases in the state is at its highest level in a decade.
According to South Australia (SA) health authorities, conditions in the upcoming summer are shaping up to be similar to those in 2010/11 when the deadly Murray Valley encephalitis virus was last detected in humans and high numbers of the endemic Ross River virus were reported.
Andrew Vickers, SA Health's manager of health
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7980409&promed&0
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