Bushman Repellents are used as prevention from many insect-borne diseases including; Ross River virus, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, Malaria, Yellow fever, Japanese B encephalitis, Filariasis, Lyme disease, Leishmaniasis and Typhus fever.
In 1956 an epidemic occurred in the Murray Valley which was compared to "acute viral polyarthritis" caused by Chikungunya virus.
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Antibodies to Ross River virus have been found in a wide variety of placental and marsupial mammals, and also in a few bird species.
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The Southern Saltmarsh mosquito (Aedes camptorhynchus) which is known to carry the Ross River virus was discovered in Napier, New Zealand, in 1998.
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