Togavirus Infections

Follow the links below to find information about togavirus infections, including Barmah Forest Virus, Ross River Virus and Rubella.

Created January 2008

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Title:   Barmah Forest virus
Publisher:   Queensland Health
Description:   Barmah Forest virus is the name given to a virus that is carried by mosquitoes. The mosquito may have contracted the virus from infected marsupials particularly possums, kangaroos and wallabies or from infected humans. The infection is not fatal and all people who develop the disease do recover.
Date:   Apr 2008

Title:   Barmah Forest virus infection - Fact Sheet
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Fact sheet on Barmah Forest virus.
Date:   Jul 2003

Title:   Alphavirus and flavivirus laboratory case definitions
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Public Health Laboratory Network have developed a standard case definition for the diagnosis of diseases which are notifiable in Australia. This page contains the laboratory case definition for alphavirus and flavivirus infections.
Date:   Dec 2004

Title:   Chikungunya virus
Publisher:   Queensland Health
Description:   Chikungunya is a viral disease spread by mosquitoes. Chikungunya is found mostly in west and east Africa, around the Indian Ocean, Asia, and South East Asia. So far the only cases of Chikungunya in Australia have been found in people recently returned from affected areas.
Date:   Apr 2008

Title:   Chikungunya fever fact sheet
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This page provides some facts about chikungunya. There have been a number of recent outbreaks however, no outbreaks have been recorded in Australia.
Date:   Oct 2006
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