摘要：A 71-year-old Burundian woman presented to Monash Medical Centre emergency department in March 2005. She described two days of lethargy, profuse diarrhoea and vomiting but denied fevers, or other symptoms. The following travel history was obtained. Upon receiv-ing a Special Humanitarian Program visa to Australia, her family was translocated to an United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) processing centre from a refugee camp in rural Tanzania, then onto Nairobi, Kenya. Her gastrointestinal symptoms commenced as they began their journey from Nairobi. The family travelled with 45 other refugees on a com-mercial . ight to Australia and arrived 36 hours before presentation at the emergency centre. The patient's daughter-in-law developed similar, but milder, symp-toms of diarrhoea during the . ight and was also admit-ted to our hospital
