Ross River Virus Disease Reemergence, Fiji, 2003–2004

Abstract

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

Keywords

• Ross River virus
• arbovirus
• alphavirus
• epidemic polyarthritis
• travel
• Fiji