“The Perfect Swarm” – Flooding across Northern Victoria leads to intensified mosquito breeding and subsequent re-emergence and transmission of Murray Valley encephalitis virus during the 2022-23 mosquito season

• Peter J. Neville ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Peter.Neville@health.vic.gov.au

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0823-6934

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• Rachel N. Evans,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Helen O’Brien,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Peter T. Mee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Natasha D. Brohier,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Nicole Hughes

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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