As confirmed by the Townsville City Council, despite being issued repeated warnings, many residents of the area are still choosing to conveniently ignore dengue threats and avoid taking dengue prevention measures.

So far, there have been 12 confirmed cases of dengue fever in Townsville, located in North Queensland.

The Council is gone as far as to go to each and every household to ensure whether or not the residents have complied with the new warnings issued and taken all the preventive measures to keep dengue at bay, much to the authorities' disappointment.

"There was a few residences over in Garbutt that I was aware of that we'd gone back and found water in around the house on the second inspection, so obviously those residents didn't heed our requests or our warnings and that's concerning. At the end of the day ... really the only way to eradicate this is to have total community support", said Dale Last, Chairman of the Community Safety and health Committee.

Currently, there are a total of 2 strains of the fever going around in the city, with 9 confirmed cases of type one fever and 3 cases of type 2 dengue. The containing of virus has, according to a Queensland Health spokesperson, been made difficult because of the wet season and the fact that people travel more during Christmas.