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Andrew Brown -> RE: Build 1.70 Status (10/7/2005 2:12:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: doktorblood
Don't forget the other crowd favourites, like Dengue Fever and Barmha Forest virus, present in the Northern Oz enviroment.
I didn't forget about the other diseases. It is just that their infection rate is, like malaria, too small to be considered. Dengue fever, again according to ADavidB's excellent source, affected about 600 people in the entire country in 1940 (no figures avaibale from that source for 1941-1944); typhus, 60-70; Ross River virus (today the most common) - no figures available, but it was not epidemic. Even today, with infection rates much higher than earlier, it affects a few thousand people in the whole country in a 12 month period - still too small to be considered. Ross River virus was not detected until the 1950s in any case, and its effects are usually - though not always - mild. Infection is also thought to confer lifelong immunity afterwards. Barmah forest virus is much less common than the similar Ross river virus, and was only identified in the 1980s, long after WW2. Common diseases of the time, like scarlet fever and influenza, were much more common than all of these, but occurred worldwide.
Have I put off anyone from visiting Australia yet? [:)]
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