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Mossie Virus Warning in NW WA


Gday...

Came across this warning - https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/latest/a/24248111/mosquito-borne-virus-warning-for-nw/

It seems to only be just a warning ... but keep the cream/spray on praps.

cheers - John



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Charters Towers (Nth Qld) also has similar probs ..

http://www.health.qld.gov.au/dengue/outbreaks/current.asp

Jon

 

 



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Just met a friend yesterday who I had not seen since we met up in Broome last year.    Seems he has been off the Radar because he contracted Ross River Virus probably in Broome as they spent six weeks there.

Still on medication and a lot better  then he has been  for 11 months.



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we have a warning in SA about VICTORIANS no medication available . sorry had to put that in. go crows

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Jonathan wrote:

Charters Towers (Nth Qld) also has similar probs ..

http://www.health.qld.gov.au/dengue/outbreaks/current.asp

Jon 


 I had it in PNG Jon, and a relapse also.   Not the nicest thing to have.   Did you have any malaria or Dengue when there? confuse



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I certainly wouldn't want dengue Vic ..

I've had Malaria (3) times since settling in Oz .. but not recently, thank goodness ! ..



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Hubby had dengue in Lae in 1976. Don't  know if he got it from Lae, as he travelled all over PNG. It was awful! 

Dianne 



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I had mine at Moem (near Wewak) in 1959 Dianne, certainly wouldn't want that again, still had the occasional bout of it after I returned to Oz.

Odd for the time you spent in PNG Jonathon that it wasn't until you returned to Oz you got it, was it because you were taking anti malarial tablets up there but not in Oz?

Nothing to do with malaria or dengue (but who knows what it might have been carrying) I saw this mozzie biting my arm in the semi darkness of the jungle that had a luminous triangle strip on it's head, I never saw one like it again anywhere.

Cerebral Malaria was a problem up there also, not many survived that I believe.



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Vic41 wrote:

"I had mine at Moem (near Wewak) in 1959 Dianne, certainly wouldn't want that again, still had the occasional bout of it after I returned to Oz.

Odd for the time you spent in PNG Jonathon that it wasn't until you returned to Oz you got it, was it because you were taking anti malarial tablets up there but not in Oz? .............................. "


 As a child I did suffer from "flu" symptoms on numerous occasions although taking the yellow tablets .. Dad had told me that I first got really ill after travelling to Tarway which was about 140 k's up the Sepik River. The mouth of the Sepik is also not far from Wewak, Vic. (Dad used to "skipper" small ships) .. I'm not aware that it was ever recognised as Malaria until first bout in Oz.

Innoculation as a baby in Madang in the early '50's was a hit and miss situation, I'm told .. The extremely high count of HepB antibodies in my system (still to this day) is what triggered the identification .. mind you .. HepB antibodies is a good thing .. I'll happily keep 'em !

Oh .. and I never had suffered from Hepititis at all ..



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I did visit Angorum on the Sepik River a couple of times Jonathon, what an interesting life your Dad and the rest of the family must have had.

Where abouts in Oz did you get your Malaria?   Did you ever get Hook Worm? (also is in Oz tropics).



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