A man died after connecting mosquitoes transferred Japanese encephalitis (you), in the first death in New South Wales in almost three years.
The man in his 1970s died in a hospital in the north of Sydney on Sunday.
He received treatment for the virus since the beginning of February after he probably had sustained the disease while he was on vacation in Murrumbidegee in January.
It marks the first death of yours in NSW since May 2022 and the third death of the state, because the disease was first detected earlier that year.
A woman in the sixties receives a treatment for the infection in a hospital in the north of the state after the disease has probably been sustained on her property in the Tennerfield Shire.
You are a rare but serious brain infection spread through the bite of an infected mosquito.
The disease cannot be transferred between people or contracted by eating pork.
Symptoms are headache, convulsions, neck stiffness, coma, chills and disorientation and usually appear between five and 10 days of bitten.
Japanese encephalitis (depicted) is a rare but severe brain infection spread through the bite of an infected mosquito
The man's death has led to an urgent warning from the NSW health.
Executive director of NSW Health for Health Protection Dr. Jeremy Mcanulty reminded residents that a safe and effective vaccine was available.
“These two cases of your virus, one of which was infected while traveling for a vacation, show that it is very important that all people take precautions against mosquitoes, not only those who live in affected regions,” Dr. Mcanulty.
“If you are planning to travel west of the large partition, either for work or vacation, and you intend to spend time out of the home, you are a risk that you have to take into account.”
Aussies have been encouraged to apply mosquito pelleting while he is outside in the open air, in particular one that contains deet, picaridine or lemon eucalyptus.
Peak Mosquito Times are at sunrise and twilight.
