Japanese encephalitis emergence in Australia: the potential population at risk.
Laith YakobWenbiao HuFrancesca D FrentiuNarayan GyawaliLeon E HugoBrian JohnsonColleen LauLuis Furuya-KanamoriRicardo Soares MagalhaesGregor J DevinePublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
In Australia, Japanese encephalitis virus circulated in tropical north Queensland between 1995 and 2005. In 2022, a dramatic range expansion across the southern states has resulted in 30 confirmed human cases and six deaths. We discuss the outbreak drivers and estimate the potential size of the human population at risk.