A rare outbreak of Japanese encephalitis has infected 34 people and killed three.
, a small town in New South Wales close to the Victorian state line, he now breathes through a tube and communicates through blinking. The only parts of his body he can move are his right hand, feet, neck and facial muscles.
Kiefel’s symptoms started with aching joints. Then a headache and fatigue. He collapsed with brain swelling on Feb. 19 and has been unable to breathe without assistance since.“He is cognitive,” Monk said. “And he can read. I never thought he’d be able to sit out in a wheelchair, so I was quite stunned” when he did. “But he does have advance directives — he wants a quality of life.”
test for the virus and track its spread. The federal government is rolling out vaccines to pig farmworkers and others at higher risk. The key message from authorities is to avoid bites: Wear repellent, cover up in loose clothing, drain or remove standing water. “I think Australians, in general, are feeling they have to watch out for more and be more cautious and more aware of the unknown,” Andrae said. “Whether it’s floods, bush fires — now mosquitoes. Things are moving into Australia. Whether it’s people, whether it’s climate, whether it’s just that the risks are greater, the speed that they’re moving with we just haven’t seen before.”
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