Collecting mossie spit for health in our region

Melissa North
Updated March 13 2018 - 5:58pm, first published 5:40pm
MOSSIE SPIT: Katherine Stock, Director of Nursing and Michana Bell, Operations Officer at Normanton Hospital, monitor the Normanton trap.
MOSSIE SPIT: Katherine Stock, Director of Nursing and Michana Bell, Operations Officer at Normanton Hospital, monitor the Normanton trap.

Every two weeks North West Hospital and Health Service (NWHHS) nurses in Normanton and Karumba collect little cards of mossie spit and send them off to a laboratory in Brisbane, to detect what kind of viruses our local mosquitoes are carrying.

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Melissa North

Melissa North

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