West Nile Virus

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Subject:	West Nile Virus
From:	Andrew Taylor <>
Date:	Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:45:48 +1000

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:42:08PM +1000, Terry Bishop wrote:
> Many reports coming out of the US are claiming record numbers of birds and
> mosquito's testing positive for the West Nile Virus. I hope that ALL layers
> of our Government are taking note and necessary precautions for such an
> outbreak within Australia.

Interestingly there is closely related virus (Kunjin) in Australia and
Australians used their research on it to help the US identify West Nile
when it became prominent here in the 1990s.  These researchers have  a
nice overview here:
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/178_01_060103/mac10607_fm.html

Andrew

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