A Victorian woman in her sixties has died after becoming the first person in the state to contract the mosquito-borne disease in almost 50 years.
Victorian health authorities say the state’s first human case of Murray Valley encephalitis in nearly 50 years has been discovered in the state’s north and warn the risk of more cases of mosquito-borne disease in the region is very high.
Heavy rains, flooding events and summer heat have led to an explosion in mosquito populations on Australia’s east coast in recent months. This has led to an increased risk of mosquito-borne diseases, including Japanese encephalitis , Murray Valley encephalitis and West Nile encephalitis , in these areas.. In late December authorities reported a Campaspe resident had contracted JEV. Neither case was fatal.
“MVE virus and West Nile virus continue to be detected in mosquitoes trapped in parts of northern Victoria, and it is likely that JE virus is also circulating in mosquito populations. The risk of human cases in the coming weeks is very high,”Only about 1 per cent of human JEV and MVE cases are symptomatic, but half of those cases are left with long-term brain damage, and, in a quarter of cases, patients die.
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