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View all search resultsWith temperatures in the country expected to rise up to five times the average as El Niño returns, the Health Ministry is ramping up measures including larvae monitoring and mapping as well as public awareness campaigns to prevent an increase in dengue cases.
Previously confined to the tropical north, since late February Japanese encephalitis has travelled as far south as South Australia -- infecting a total 16 people with two confirmed deaths, according to state health authorities.
Results of the three-year study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week, found that infecting dengue-carrying mosquitoes with a harmless bacteria called Wolbachia led to a 77 percent drop in human cases.
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