This material has been condensed from information on the WHO Internet site. A link to this site can be found under 'Other Australian and international communicable diseases sites' on the CDI homepage.
Investigations are in progress and preventive and control measures are being implemented.
On 30 July 1999, the Ministry of Health of New Zealand reported an imported case of cholera to WHO and to the Ministry of Health of Fiji. O1 El Tor subtype Ogawa wasconfirmed in a 26 year old male from New Zealand who had visited a small offshore reef island in Fiji as a tourist in June 1999. A similar case in a visitor from New Zealand, possibly acquired at the same Fiji island resort, was investigated by the Ministry of Health of Fiji 8 months earlier. No other cases were found at that time. The island's drinking-water is separately obtained.