{"id":9005,"date":"2025-03-18T20:24:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9005"},"modified":"2025-03-18T20:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:24:59","slug":"japanese-encephalitis-has-claimed-a-second-life-in-nsw-and-been-detected-in-brisbane-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/18\/japanese-encephalitis-has-claimed-a-second-life-in-nsw-and-been-detected-in-brisbane-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese encephalitis has claimed a second life in NSW and been detected in Brisbane. What is\u00a0it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/japanese-encephalitis-has-claimed-a-second-life-in-nsw-and-been-detected-in-brisbane-what-is-it-252373\">The Conversation<\/a> A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.nsw.gov.au\/news\/Pages\/20250314_01.aspx\">second man has died<\/a>&nbsp;from Japanese encephalitis virus in New South Wales on March 6, the state\u2019s health authorities confirmed on Friday. Aged in his 70s, the man was infected while holidaying in the Murrumbidgee region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This follows the death of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.nsw.gov.au\/news\/Pages\/20250225_01.aspx\">another man in his 70s<\/a>&nbsp;in Sydney last month, after holidaying in the same region in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese encephalitis virus has also been detected for the first time in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.qld.gov.au\/newsroom\/doh-media-releases\/be-alert-against-mosquitoes-as-jev-detected-in-brisbane\">mosquitoes collected in Brisbane\u2019s eastern suburbs<\/a>, Queensland health authorities confirmed on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With mosquito activity expected to increase thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/first-wind-then-rain-next-come-the-mozzies-heres-how-to-reduce-your-risk-of-bites-and-infections-251260\">flooding rains brought by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred<\/a>, it\u2019s important to protect yourself from mosquito bites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/japanese-encephalitis-has-claimed-a-second-life-in-nsw-and-been-detected-in-brisbane-what-is-it-252373\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" byroI   j\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conversation A&nbsp;second man has died&nbsp;from Japanese encephalitis virus in New South Wales on March 6, the state\u2019s health authorities confirmed on Friday. Aged in his 70s, the man was infected while holidaying in the Murrumbidgee region. This follows the death of&nbsp;another man in his 70s&nbsp;in Sydney last month, after holidaying in the same region [&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":[6,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-mosquito-bourne-diseases"],"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\/9005","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=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9006,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions\/9006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}