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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Director of Public Health Pathology, NSW Health Pathology, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Cameron Webb is a Friend of The Conversation.
Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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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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Medical Entomologist, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, The Cente for Applied Genomics — Sickkids Hospital, University of Toronto
