Thanks for that Andrew. With that and the new strains of bird flu emerging
it makes one wonder-------.
Terry B
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Andrew Taylor
Sent: Saturday, 5 July 2008 10:46 PM
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Subject: West Nile Virus
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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