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- Title
Dengue fever: is it endemic in Australia?
- Authors
McBride, W. J. H.
- Abstract
The article discusses the widespread outbreak of dengue fever in Australia. History outlines that the fever was first mentioned in the nation on cases recorded on board a ship from Mauritius in 1873. It became an epidemic in the 1890s with notable number of deaths. It notes that the epidemics was documented at regular intervals, specifically in northern New South Wales and Queensland. It points out that the epidemics range in size in the following years.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; DENGUE; ARBOVIRUS diseases; VIRUS disease transmission; EPIDEMICS; DISEASE outbreaks; INFECTIOUS disease transmission
- Publication
Internal Medicine Journal, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 4, p247
- ISSN
1444-0903
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1111/j.1445-5994.2010.02196.x