First case of Japanese encephalitis this summer recorded in NSW.

A man infected by the Japanese encephalitis virus while camping in NSW is recovering in hospital.

It is the first case of Japanese encephalitis, which killed two people in the state in 2022, to be reported in humans this summer in NSW.

NSW Health’s executive director of health protection Dr Jeremy McAnulty said on Saturday that the man likely acquired his infection while camping in late December/early January in the Murrumbidgee region.

Along with discoveries of the virus in pigs and mosquitoes in NSW, and detections in Victoria and Queensland, McAnulty said the man’s case highlighted the risk of JE virus infection in a large stretch of NSW west of the Great Dividing Range.

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