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Bali travel warning as dengue fever spreads
Katherine Fenech
December 17, 2010 - 8:35AM
A worrying spike in the number of Bali holiday-makers returning to WA with the potentially-fatal disease dengue fever has sparked a Health Department warning to travellers.
The Health Department's communicable disease control director Paul Armstrong said there had been over 430 reports of dengue fever in West Australians this year, three times as many as there were at the same time last year.
"Most of these cases are associated with travel to Bali," Dr Armstrong said...
Bali travel warning as dengue fever spreads
Katherine Fenech
December 17, 2010 - 8:35AM
A worrying spike in the number of Bali holiday-makers returning to WA with the potentially-fatal disease dengue fever has sparked a Health Department warning to travellers.
The Health Department's communicable disease control director Paul Armstrong said there had been over 430 reports of dengue fever in West Australians this year, three times as many as there were at the same time last year.
"Most of these cases are associated with travel to Bali," Dr Armstrong said...