| Subject: ABC: Mossie disease experts to
help E Timor
ABC Last Update: Wednesday, April 13, 2005. 9:47am (AEST) Mossie
disease experts to help E Timor
Two Northern Territory-based dengue fever mosquito experts will fly to
East Timor today to help stop a recent outbreak.
Twenty-four East Timorese have died from the disease and more than 400
have been hospitalised this year.
The Health Department's senior entomologist Peter Whelan says the
two-day trip will be used to get basic information about how Timorese
authorities tackle the virus.
"Just what methods they have for surveillance, to see if they have
a surveillance program that we can offer some assistance with and their
control programs, what equipment they might be using, what insecticides
they might be using and actually what ... methods they'll be using,"
he said.
"So it's an evaluation trip to start with and to get some
background information."
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