Domestic Pigs and Japanese Encephalitis Virus Infection, Australia

Abstract

To determine whether relocating domestic pigs, the amplifying host of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), decreased the risk for JEV transmission to humans in northern Australia, we collected mosquitoes for virus detection. Detection of JEV in mosquitoes after pig relocation indicates that pig relocation did not eliminate JEV risk.

Keywords

• Japanese encephalitis virus
• domestic pigs
• mosquito infection
• Australia
• dispatch