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Emerg Infect Dis. 2001 Sep-Oct; 7(5): 900–903.
PMCID: PMC2631883
PMID: 11747709
Wind-blown mosquitoes and introduction of Japanese encephalitis into Australia.
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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