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Dengue fever: is it endemic in Australia?
Author(s) -
McBride W. J. H.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2010.02196.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dengue fever , endemic diseases , virology , intensive care medicine
It is instructive to look at our early colonial history for\udinsights as to what factors may be involved with the\udre-emergence of diseases once considered endemic in\udAustralia. Malaria, for example, was responsible for large\udepidemics in the Northern Territory and the Gulf of Carpentaria, and was the reason for the desertion of the\udtown of Port Essington, north of Darwin, in 1849.1 The\udnorth Queensland coast was considered endemic for\udmalaria with a large epidemic in 1942 leading to the\udestablishment of a malaria research unit in Cairns under\udthe guidance of Colonel Neil Hamilton Fairley. The combination of effective malaria control in the allied forces combined with civilian mosquito control measures led to the disappearance of malaria soon after World War II,\udalthough sporadic epidemics, linked to introduced cases,\udhave occurred since