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Mosquitos and Arboviruses (Mosquito bourne diseases)

Bourke Shire Council participates in NSW Arbovirus Surveillance and coordinated by NSW HEALTH.

The aim of the program is to provide an early warning of the presence of:

• Alphaviruses
  • Barmah Forest
  • Ross river
  • Sindbis
• Flauviruses
  • Alfry
  • Edge Hill
  • Kokobera
  • Kunjin
  • Murray Valley Encephalitis
  • Stratford
• Bunyaviruses
  • Gan Gan
  • Trubanaman

in a state effort to reduce potential for human disease. Source: NSW Arbovirus Surveillance and Mosquito Monitoring Program.

Every Mosquito season (summer months) Bourke Shire Council staff and community volunteers within Bourke Shire receive sentinel chickens and mosquito trapping equipment. The sites for these sentinel flocks are Bourke, Wanaaring and Fords Bridge. These sentinel chickens are bleed weekly and the blood tested for disease. Mosquito's are also trapped alive at various locations and sent for analysis. The results and more information on chicken bleeding and mosquito trapping are available on the NSW Health web site, at http://www.arbovirus.health.nsw.gov.au.

Contact details
Environmental Services Department
02 6830 8000 (ph)
02 6872 3030 (fax)
bourkeshire@bourke.nsw.gov.au

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