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A cluster of locally-acquired Ross River virus infection in outer western Sydney Volume 11 Issue 7

Tim Brokenshire, Doug Symonds, Roderick Reynolds, Stephen Doggett, Merilyn Geary, Richard Russell

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 11(7) 132 - 134 Published: 2000

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Tim Brokenshire

Doug Symonds

Roderick Reynolds

Stephen Doggett

Merilyn Geary

Richard Russell

Abstract

Ross River virus is most often considered a disease of rural Australia. However, an outbreak of RRV infection identified among people living in the north-western outskirts of Sydney, and outbreaks in Brisbane, Perth and south-western Australia, reveal the potential for RRV activity to spread to metropolitan areas.