Ross River virus in a joint military exercise

Authors

  • Linda Hueston Arbovirus & Emerging Disease Unit, Virology Department, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratories, Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145
  • Alun Yund Deployed Public Health Laboratory, Camp Samuel Hill, Exercise TANDEM THRUST 97; Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit No. 6, Box 112, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 96860
  • Stanton Cope Deployed Public Health Laboratory, Camp Samuel Hill, Exercise TANDEM THRUST 97; Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit No. 6, Box 112, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 96860
  • Marshall Monteville Deployed Public Health Laboratory, Camp Samuel Hill, Exercise TANDEM THRUST 97; Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit No. 6, Box 112, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 96860
  • Marie Marchetti Arbovirus & Emerging Disease Unit, Virology Department, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratories, Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145
  • John Haniotis Medical Entomology, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratories, Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research & the University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145.
  • John Clancy Medical Entomology, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratories, Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research & the University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145.
  • Stephen Doggett Medical Entomology, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratories, Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research & the University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145.
  • Richard Russell Medical Entomology, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratories, Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research & the University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145.
  • Dominic Dwyer Arbovirus & Emerging Disease Unit, Virology Department, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratories, Institute of Clinical Pathology & Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145
  • Greg Parker United States Navy Seventh Fleet, PSC 473 Box 722, FPO AP 96349-5555

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.1997.21.40

Keywords:

Ross River virus, prevention and control, vector surveillance, occupational health

Abstract

In support of a large, combined Australia-United States of America military exercise at Shoalwater Bay in south-eastern Queensland during March 1997 (TANDEM THRUST 97), the United States Navy sent the Deployed Public Health Laboratory (DPHL) into the field with the forces. The purpose of this was preventative medicine as well as disease and vector surveillance. Among the numerous potential threats to the health of the troops was Ross River virus (RRV), to which very few of the US personnel would have been previously exposed.

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Published

10/07/97

How to Cite

Hueston, Linda, Alun Yund, Stanton Cope, Marshall Monteville, Marie Marchetti, John Haniotis, John Clancy, et al. 1997. “Ross River Virus in a Joint Military Exercise”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 21 (July):198. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.1997.21.40.

Issue

Vol. 21 (1997)

Section

Short report

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