Mosquito-borne disease

But obviously, if we're getting mosquitoes from the field, like I'm involved in screening them for things, for example, but that is sort of where my connection to the pathogen sort of ends.

I should probably also add to...

the mosquito-borne diseases that we have in australia that we also do have dengue and we had sort of local transmission of dengue in in queensland um which was mainly brought under control through volbachia releases um that i can get a little bit into if you like or not

i wanted to talk to you more about uh the baruli also um can you tell us a bit more about what it is

So it's a mycobacterium and once it's sort of in people's skin, it produces a toxin called microlactone that suppresses the immune system.

And obviously they come and go with the season.

And then the Brawley ulcer one, we're like misaligned by exactly five months, which is the incubation period.

So while you get notifications of other mosquito-borne diseases in the mosquito season, you get Brawley ulcer notifications in winter.