Phuket health officials eye Aussie tourist Japanese encephalitis death

The Phuket News

 

Japanese encephalitis is carried by the Culex genus of mosquitoes. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

 

PHUKET: -- Officials at the Phuket Provincial Health Office are waiting for more information on reports of an Australian tourist who died from Japanese encephalitis which is believed he contracted while on holiday in Phuket.

 

“The Department of Disease Control officials at the PPHO were notified just this morning that an Australian tourist had contracted Japanese encephalitis,” an official at the PPHO told The Phuket News this morning (June 23).

 

“We have not had a single report of Japanese encephalitis in Phuket this year. I am still waiting for information from Ministry of Health to find out more about the case of the Australian tourist,” she said.

 

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