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Mosquito-borne disease transmission highest in a decade for South Australians, SA Health says
ABC Riverland
By Anita Ward
Posted Yesterday at 2:39pm
South Australia's major health body warns the current risk of local transmission of serious and potentially deadly mosquito-borne diseases in the state is at its highest level since 2010.
SA Health said the 2010/11 season was the last time notified cases of the potentially deadly Murray Valley Encephalitis virus in humans was recorded in South Australia, with the most recent date before then being in 1974.
High numbers of the endemic Ross River virus were also detected in SA residents that year and the Government organisation said this season's conditions are shaping up to be similar, particularly along the Murray River system...
Mosquito-borne disease transmission highest in a decade for South Australians, SA Health says
ABC Riverland
By Anita Ward
Posted Yesterday at 2:39pm
South Australia's major health body warns the current risk of local transmission of serious and potentially deadly mosquito-borne diseases in the state is at its highest level since 2010.
SA Health said the 2010/11 season was the last time notified cases of the potentially deadly Murray Valley Encephalitis virus in humans was recorded in South Australia, with the most recent date before then being in 1974.
High numbers of the endemic Ross River virus were also detected in SA residents that year and the Government organisation said this season's conditions are shaping up to be similar, particularly along the Murray River system...