Ross River Virus Disease Reemergence, Fiji, 2003–2004

• DOI: 10.3201/eid1104.041070
• Publication Date: 2012-03-20T14:29:39Z
• Authors: Philipp Klapsing; J. Dick MacLean; Sarah Glaze; Karen L. McClean; Michael A. Drebot; Robert S. Lanciotti; Grant L. Campbell
• Keywords: Ross River virus

Abstract We report 2 clinically characteristic and serologically positive cases of Ross River virus infection in Canadian tourists who visited Fiji late 2003 early 2004. This suggests that is once again circulating Fiji, where it apparently disappeared after causing an epidemic 1979 to 1980.