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Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney

Japanese encephalitis has claimed a second life in NSW and been detected in Brisbane. What is it?

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A second man has died from Japanese encephalitis virus in New South Wales on March 6, the state’s health authorities confirmed on Friday. Aged in his 70s, the man was infected while holidaying in the Murrumbidgee region.

This follows the death of another man in his 70s in Sydney last month, after holidaying in the same region in January.

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