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Flocks of sentinel chickens on duty to provide early warning of deadly virus as rains brings mosquitoes
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Kevin Rosser is happy to volunteer to look after the sentinel chickens in Hay and says the supply of eggs is a bonus.
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A humble chicken coop in Hay in southern NSW is playing a key role in an early warning system for a rare but deadly virus.
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Flocks of sentinel chickens are used to see if Murray Valley encephalitis is present in the mosquito population.
The chickens are looked after by volunteers
Living on a rural property in outer Perth, Megan Newman has had her fair share of mozzie bites.
In fact, the southern suburb of Karnup where she lives is notorious for its plagues of mosquitos that come and go, tormenting locals as they breed cycle after cycle on vacant lots and in the nearby Serpentine River.
But what Ms Newman didn't know was how debilitating a bite from the wrong mozzie could be.
Then, in March last year, just as the coronavirus crisis was gripping the world, she suddenly fell ill.
"We were building a little feed shed for my daughter's horses down the back of the property and on that day we absolutely got smashed by mozzies," Ms Newman said.
A seemingly innocuous mosquito bit has left a Perth mother in agony and unable to walk for long periods.
In March 2020, Megan Newman was building a shed for her daughter's horses on her property at Karnup on Perth's southern fringe when she was attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes.
One of the many bites she sustained would leave her crippled for a month.
Perth mother, Megan Newman (pictured) was bitten in March 2020 by one bad mosquito that would give her not one, but two viruses
'I got a really bad headache and was extremely hot and cold like nothing I've ever felt before,' Ms Newman told Nine News.