Ordinary people like you or I are being infected by a silent killer disease and there have been media reports of a massive government cover up to avoid a public panic.
Everyone that has contact with mosquitos is at risk of death or disabilitating and permanant illness and there is no vaccines and no cure.
The disease will kill 25% of all of those that contract it and a further 25% that do survive the initial onslaught will be struck down to the state of near total body and mind function.
Here are the full details ...
A mosquito-borne virus which killed a Canadian tourist and left a toddler critically ill has prompted a widespread warning for people to cover up and protect themselves from mosquito bites in Australia's north.
A 19-year-old Canadian woman died after contracting Murray Valley encephalitis following a trip through the Northern Territory this month. She returned home where she became unwell, and yesterday died in a hospital in Calgary, Alberta.
A Northern Territory Health Department spokesman said it was not known where in the NT the Canadian woman contracted the disease.
Meanwhile, a two-year-old remains in Royal Darwin Hospital after also contracting the potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus in the Kimberley region of WA.
A WA police officer who contracted MVE while on a two-week relief stint at an Aboriginal community remains in a Perth hospital.
Constable Ryan Marron, 29, has come out of a coma but is still unable to communicate.
It is not known if the police officer or the toddler will fully recover.
Last month, a man who had been travelling in WA's northwest became the first person in the state to die from the disease in three years.
So far this year there have been three confirmed cases of MVE in the Northern Territory and one report of the closely related Kunjin virus.
In WA there have been nine reports of MVE, leaving one dead and several hospitalised.
The WA Health Department last week issued its fifth warning in three months, following the death of a man in WA last month.
The viruses, which have no cure and no vaccination, kill 25 per cent of people who contract them while another 25 per cent have residual neurological effects.
People infected in WA so far this year had been travelling through the Kimberley, Pilbara, Gascoyne and eastern Goldfields regions.
Department entomologist Sue Harrington said while there was no suggestion the MVE virus would reach Perth, the fact it had already hit the Wheatbelt and Mid-West regions was of a concern.
"It seems to have activated independently this season," she said.
"There has been an extension of that area, so a large proportion of West Australia is now affected by MVE."
The death of a man in the north-west of the state last month and a South Australian man two weeks ago led the Department to issue another stern warning about the virus.
"It causes inflammation of the brain," she said.
"People have suffered paralysis and brain damage of varying degrees.
"Often people in the north just accept that mosquitoes are a fact of life.
"A lot of people might have been bitten and have developed the antibodies.
"Every year we have activity in the region. It's still the same disease, with the same drastic symptoms."
Ms Harrington warned as there was no cure doctors were only able to treat the symptoms of the virus so people living and travelling outside the metropolitan area should take measures to avoid mosquito bites by applying mosquito repellents and wearing long-sleeved clothing.
In addition to MVE and Kunjin viruses, Ross River and Barmah Forest viruses were still causing dramas across the south of the state with more infections reported to the Department.
The latter two viruses cause similar symptoms including painful joints, aching muscles, lethargy, fever, headaches and skin rashes and can last from days to months.
The symptoms of Kunjin and MVE are similar. While the latter is more severe, both cause fever, drowsiness, stiff neck, nausea and dizziness. Young children can experience drowsiness, floppiness, irritability, poor feeding or general distress.
This so called cover up is a blatent lie as you have just read seeing as warnings have been posted to those in affected areas and the disease itself is hardly a mystery virus or new contagion. To those living in country regions, it has been a known factor for many years.
Post 3: I would be more worried about this as we are having a severe mouse plague in large areas of AU south east...... cant post link so go to abc.net.au and copy this into search: mice-plague-sparks-rare-disease-outbreak
SupercellKid 3 months ago
@SupercellKid - This is only one of 2 possibilities. I have not seen the report nor do I know of its exact content. I have posted 2 videos in relation to the today tonight so called super deadly disease cover up and if it is a disease, then this is the only possibilty as the other is a brain eating ameobia that crawls into your head and munches away on your grey matter. Both are in australia but both have also featured in docos several times like "Monsters inside me"
chickensayboo 3 months ago
Post 2: Either way I am glad you made this post, it has made me aware that this is nothing to panic about. While I live in Finley NSW now, I have spent a great number of years in Port Hedland and Roebourne WA. Mozzies and their diseases are indeed well known by the Gen Pop. nothing new and shame on Channel Sevens Current Affairs Dept for making such propaganda and scare mongering for Ratings. I hope an infected Mozzie bites the producer, now that would be NEWS!!!
SupercellKid 3 months ago
@SupercellKid - PS ... oh and BTW ... You'd have to be really super unlucky to get either of these issues. It's alot like saying there is a super flesh eating disease out there that'll eat you alive. Yes, it is out there and yes, everyone has it on their skin. However - almost nobody actually gets eaten by it as the body tends to look after itself nicely.
chickensayboo 3 months ago