Sally Furniss
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Coroner investigates whether dengue fever caused death
Posted Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:42pm AEST
The South Hedland coroner will investigate whether a sudden death in Karratha was due to the mosquito-borne virus dengue fever.
The Health Department has warned West Australians travelling to South-East Asia about the virus following the death of a 38 year-old man on Wednesday.
It is understood he had recently returned from Bali.
Police forensic pathologists will conduct a post mortem examination in Perth and investigate whether the man had a mosquito-borne virus.
The WA Tourism Council's Graham Moss says it comes as thousands of West Australians head to Bali for school holidays.
"There's approximately 60 flights a week going to Bali and if you said that each aircraft held about 150 people, on average then we're looking at about 9,000 people a week so between 18,000 to 20,000 people over the course of the school holidays," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/01/3027069.htm
Posted Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:42pm AEST
The South Hedland coroner will investigate whether a sudden death in Karratha was due to the mosquito-borne virus dengue fever.
The Health Department has warned West Australians travelling to South-East Asia about the virus following the death of a 38 year-old man on Wednesday.
It is understood he had recently returned from Bali.
Police forensic pathologists will conduct a post mortem examination in Perth and investigate whether the man had a mosquito-borne virus.
The WA Tourism Council's Graham Moss says it comes as thousands of West Australians head to Bali for school holidays.
"There's approximately 60 flights a week going to Bali and if you said that each aircraft held about 150 people, on average then we're looking at about 9,000 people a week so between 18,000 to 20,000 people over the course of the school holidays," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/01/3027069.htm