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Monday, October 24, 2016

*NEW MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS*

Now another nasty virus appears about to escape the jungles - mayaro.

Mayaro has been known to medicine for about 60 years.

The virus has rarely registered on the radarwith only sporadic outbreaks inlimited parts of northern South America.

In Septembermore than 100,000 cases were confirmed in the Americas -including for the first time significant numbers in Haiti.

Mayaro's symptoms are very similar to hikungunyajoint pains combined withchillsfever and a rash.

Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake of the Australian National Universitysays mayaro is generally thought not to have any serious complications: "Butthat's what we originally thought about zika".

"Not many of us could have told you much about zika a few years agoNoweveryone knows about itI get the feeling that we're going to start to hearmore about mayaroAnd then there's sindbisa virus that was first found inCairo but is now being found in Europe." Like zika and chikengunyamayaro isa virus naturally carried by jungle mosquitoes.

"It's a bit like yellow feverin terms of being a mosquito virus," says DrSenanayake.

"It is normally transmitted among primates in jungle or forest areasThat'sthe reservoir which keeps the virus surviving." But times are changing.

Chikungunya is one such virus that has already mutated and adaptedit's nowhappily carried by common urban mosquitoes such as a. aegypti and aedesalbopictus.

Mayarobeing similar to chikungunyalooks poised to follow.

This significantly boosts the viruschances of being carried into new territory.

"Human population is encroaching more on the jungle and rural areastherefore we're getting more interaction with animal species," Dr Senanayakesays.


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Source: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/new-mosquitoborne-virus-mayaro-breaks-out-of-south-american-jungles/news-story/457db60efeb0bfcd15151e3763b2698b





For more about the virus: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/new-mosquitoborne-virus-mayaro-breaks-out-of-south-american-jungles/news-story/457db60efeb0bfcd15151e3763b2698b
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