Ross River virus disease in two Dutch travellers returning from Australia, February to April 2015

C Reusken; N Cleton; M Medonça Melo; C Visser; C GeurtsvanKessel; P Bloembergen; M Koopmans; J Schmidt-Chanasit; P van Genderen

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.31.21200

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Ross River virus disease in two Dutch travellers returning from Australia, February to April 2015
C Reusken¹ , N Cleton^1,2 , M Medonça Melo³ , C Visser⁴ , C GeurtsvanKessel ¹ , P Bloembergen⁵ , M Koopmans^1,2 , J Schmidt-Chanasit^6,7 , P van Genderen³
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Viroscience, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands ² Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands ³ Institute for Tropical Diseases, Harbour Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands ⁴ General practice Havelte, Havelte, the Netherlands ⁵ Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Infectious diseases, Isala Clinics, Zwolle, the Netherlands ⁶ Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany ⁷ German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany

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Citation style for this article: Reusken C, Cleton N, Medonça Melo M, Visser C, GeurtsvanKessel C, Bloembergen P, Koopmans M, Schmidt-Chanasit J, van Genderen P. Ross River virus disease in two Dutch travellers returning from Australia, February to April 2015. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(31):pii=21200. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.31.21200 Received: 17 Jul 2015

Abstract

We report two cases of Ross River virus (RRV) infection in Dutch travellers who visited Australia during February to April 2015. These cases coincided with the largest recorded outbreak of RRV disease in Australia since 1996. This report serves to create awareness among physicians to consider travel-related RRV disease in differential diagnosis of patients with fever, arthralgia and/or rash returning from the South Pacific area, and to promote awareness among professionals advising travellers to this region.