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. 2001 Sep-Oct;7(5):900-3.
doi: 10.3201/eid0705.017524.

Wind-blown mosquitoes and introduction of Japanese encephalitis into Australia

S A Ritchie  1 , W Rochester
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Wind-blown mosquitoes and introduction of Japanese encephalitis into Australia

S A Ritchie et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2001 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

Backtrack simulation analysis indicates that wind-blown mosquitoes could have traveled from New Guinea to Australia, potentially introducing Japanese encephalitis virus. Large incursions of the virus in 1995 and 1998 were linked with low-pressure systems that sustained strong northerly winds from New Guinea to the Cape York Peninsula.

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