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Friday 31 Mar 2023 at 4:51am, updated Fri 31 Mar 2023 at 5:40am
By Greig Johnston
A West Australian child from the West Kimberley has died from Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), a mosquito-borne infection.
... The child had been receiving treatment in a Perth hospital.
The WA Department of Health said the child could have potentially been exposed to infected mosquitoes in the West Kimberley region after the recent devastating floods in the area.
... Dr Paul Armstrong, the Department of Health's Director of Communicable Disease Control, said the case follows the MVE virus being found in mosquitoes and sentinel chickens — used to test for the presence of mosquito-borne disease — in parts of the Kimberley and Pilbara regions.
By Greig Johnston
A West Australian child from the West Kimberley has died from Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), a mosquito-borne infection.
... The child had been receiving treatment in a Perth hospital.
The WA Department of Health said the child could have potentially been exposed to infected mosquitoes in the West Kimberley region after the recent devastating floods in the area.
... Dr Paul Armstrong, the Department of Health's Director of Communicable Disease Control, said the case follows the MVE virus being found in mosquitoes and sentinel chickens — used to test for the presence of mosquito-borne disease — in parts of the Kimberley and Pilbara regions.