The mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis virus has been detected for the first time in southeastern Australia, in pigs at a pig farm. So what threat does it pose to human health?
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Bats get a lot of negative press, but they also make positive contributions to the environment and to our lives.
You might have heard the term flavivirus recently due to the outbreak of Zika virus. Zika, along with West Nile virus, dengue, yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis, belong to this family of virus.
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University of Melbourne Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Public Health Pathology, NSW Health Pathology, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, The Cente for Applied Genomics — Sickkids Hospital, University of Toronto
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Medical Entomologist, The University of Queensland