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Togavirus Infections
Follow the links below to find information about togavirus infections, including Barmah Forest Virus, Ross River Virus and Rubella.
Reviewed March 2011
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| Title: | Barmah Forest virus |
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| 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: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Chikungunya virus |
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| Publisher: | Queensland Health |
| Description: | Chikungunya is a viral disease that is spread to humans by mosquitoes. It was first described in 1952 in Tanzania (in East Africa), and since then outbreaks and epidemics of the disease have been reported from many African countries, as well as from Indian Ocean island nations, the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia. Chikungunya has been diagnosed in travelers from affected countries who have recently arrived in Australia. Although locally-acquired Chikungunya has not been detected in Australia (to the end of January 2010), mosquitoes capable of transmitting the Chikungunya virus occur in north Queensland. |
| Date: | Mar 2010 |
| Title: | Alphavirus and Flavivirus Laboratory Case Definition (LCD) |
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| 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: | Barmah Forest virus infection |
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| Publisher: | Multicultural Health Communication Service |
| Description: | Information about the causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment of the mosquito-borne disease, Barmah Forest virus infection. |
| Date: | Nov 2002 |
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