PRO/AH/EDR> Barmah Forest virus – Australia (02): (QL) comment

Other Human Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
The following background on Barmah Forest disease [BFD] in Australia is abstracted from Gideon and the Gideon e-book series. [1,2]
Barmah Forest disease virus was 1st isolated from mosquitoes (_Culex annulirostris_) in the Barmah Forest, Northern Victoria in 1974. Human infection was subsequently reported along the south coast of New South Wales during the mid-1980’s; in Queensland during 1988 -1989; in the Northern Territory in 1992, and in southwestern Western Australia in 1993. A new