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Cairns records first locally-acquired dengue fever case in seven years
Story by Sharnie Kim
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A Queensland city that had been declared "essentially dengue-free" has recorded its first locally-transmitted case of the mosquito-borne illness in seven years.
Cairns, in the state's far north, used to have yearly outbreaks of dengue fever, including one in 2008-09 which infected nearly 1,000 people.
Then in 2011 the Monash University-owned World Mosquito Program (WMP) started releasing large numbers of dengue-resistant mosquitoes in the city which stopped them spreading the virus to humans.
The last time someone contracted dengue fever in the region was in 2018 on the Atherton Tablelands...
Cairns records first locally-acquired dengue fever case in seven years
Story by Sharnie Kim
• 1d
A Queensland city that had been declared "essentially dengue-free" has recorded its first locally-transmitted case of the mosquito-borne illness in seven years.
Cairns, in the state's far north, used to have yearly outbreaks of dengue fever, including one in 2008-09 which infected nearly 1,000 people.
Then in 2011 the Monash University-owned World Mosquito Program (WMP) started releasing large numbers of dengue-resistant mosquitoes in the city which stopped them spreading the virus to humans.
The last time someone contracted dengue fever in the region was in 2018 on the Atherton Tablelands...