{"id":5273,"date":"2023-11-21T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2023-11-21T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:18:19","slug":"rude-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/21\/rude-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"Rude Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/how-rains-pigs-and-waterbirds-fueled-shocking-disease-outbreak-australia\">Science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appearance of a \u201ctropical\u201d mosquito-borne illness in southeastern Australia has unsettled researchers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Construction supervisor Jack McCann started to feel \u201ca bit crook\u201d\u2014that\u2019s \u201csick,\u201d in Australian slang\u2014on the hot afternoon of 26 February 2022. He and some buddies had just finished laying a fireplace hearth in his backyard in Corowa, Australia, population 5500. His friends suggested a trip to the pub. McCann, then 30, told them he needed to beg off. \u201cUsually, I would have been the first one there,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corowa sits beside the Murray River, which in that region forms the border between the states of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, to the south. It\u2019s a scenic area that draws tourists to fish, boat, and swim every summer. It\u2019s also rich with wetlands that make ideal mosquito breeding grounds. The river slides along slowly about 300 meters from McCann\u2019s front door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCann went to bed unusually early that night. He woke the next morning drenched in sweat and vomited his breakfast. He rarely got sick, and he wasn\u2019t a complainer, but he asked his partner to take him to the small local hospital. When his mother, Jo McCann, a nurse, visited him 24 hours later, \u201cI was absolutely horrified by his appearance,\u201d she recalls. \u201cHe was moaning. He was pale. He was photophobic. He just looked terrible.\u201d She asked the charge nurse, \u201cHow do I get him transferred?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science The appearance of a \u201ctropical\u201d mosquito-borne illness in southeastern Australia has unsettled researchers. Construction supervisor Jack McCann started to feel \u201ca bit crook\u201d\u2014that\u2019s \u201csick,\u201d in Australian slang\u2014on the hot afternoon of 26 February 2022. He and some buddies had just finished laying a fireplace hearth in his backyard in Corowa, Australia, population 5500. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}