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A Culex mosquito, the genre of insect that can spread Japanese encephalitis

Australia’s Japanese encephalitis outbreak blamed on climate change

16 March 2022

Australia's record-breaking rainfall and flooding has provided an ideal breeding ground for Culex mosquitoes, which transmit the Japanese encephalitis virus
TOPSHOT - A man paddles his kayak next to a submerged bus on a flooded street in the town of Milton in suburban Brisbane on February 28, 2022. (Photo by Patrick HAMILTON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK HAMILTON/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

Record flooding in Australia driven by La Niña and climate change

28 February 2022

A slow-moving low-pressure system has dropped 790 millimetres of rain on Brisbane in one week, causing floods that have claimed eight lives

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