{"id":5875,"date":"2024-02-13T19:39:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T01:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2024-02-13T19:39:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T01:39:54","slug":"mosquito-swarms-bring-triple-whammy-of-infectious-disease-to-timor-leste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/02\/13\/mosquito-swarms-bring-triple-whammy-of-infectious-disease-to-timor-leste\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquito swarms bring \u2018triple whammy\u2019 of infectious disease to Timor-Leste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/mosquitoes-climate-change-infectious-disease-timor-leste\/\">Telegraph<\/a> The country is battling simultaneous outbreaks of dengue, Zika and \u2013 for the first time \u2013 chikungunya. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A triple outbreak of dengue, chikungunya and Zika is threatening an island just an hour\u2019s flight from Australia in what experts warn is a \u201cwake-up call\u201d of the dangers of climate change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timor-Leste, bordering Indonesia, has seen its mosquito population spiral out of control as wet and warm weather provides the perfect breeding ground for diseases spread by the insect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid the surge, Timor-Leste recorded its first ever chikungunya outbreak, a condition causing debilitating joint pain with no vaccination or treatment, on record.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outbreaks of dengue have also been registered, with 147 total cases as of January, as well as Zika, which causes birth defects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts told the Telegraph that the triple outbreak reflects\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/global-dengue-fever-risk-warning-mosquitoes-climate-change\/\">the glaring risks associated with climate change<\/a>, which will extend the wet and warm mosquito breeding season.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph The country is battling simultaneous outbreaks of dengue, Zika and \u2013 for the first time \u2013 chikungunya. A triple outbreak of dengue, chikungunya and Zika is threatening an island just an hour\u2019s flight from Australia in what experts warn is a \u201cwake-up call\u201d of the dangers of climate change.&nbsp; Timor-Leste, bordering Indonesia, has seen [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/5875","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=5875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}