New Zealand travellers to high-risk destinations for arbovirus infection make little effort to avoid mosquito bites

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New Zealand travellers to high-risk destinations for arbovirus infection make little effort to avoid mosquito bites

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There has been no local transmission of arbovirus disease recorded in New Zealand to date. However, in the past two decades, there have been increasing numbers of overseas-acquired cases of arbovirus infections in New Zealand, mainly dengue, Zika, chikungunya and Ross River viruses. The repeated introduction of these viruses to the immunologically naïve New Zealand population through viraemic travellers represents a potential risk for local transmission by resident or new mosquito vectors. Th...

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27 May, 2022

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Sherif E. Ammar / Mary Mclntyre / Michael G. Baker / Simon Hales

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arbovirus / New Zealand / travel / infectious diseases / dengue / mosquitoes / prevention / precautionary measures / Medicine / Neuroscience / Biotechnology / Ecology / Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified / Cancer / Infectious Diseases / Virology

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