摘要：In support of a large, combinedAustralia-United States of Americamilitary exercise at Shoalwater Bay insouth-eastern Queensland duringMarch 1997 (TANDEM THRUST 97),the United States Navy sent theDeployed Public Health Laboratory(DPHL) into the field with the forces.The purpose of this was preventativemedicine as well as disease and vector surveillance. Among the numerouspotential threats to the health of thetroops was Ross River virus (RRV), towhich very few of the US personnelwould have been previously exposed
