epidemic polyarthritis

The name epidemic polyarthritis was coined for this disease.

Before the identification of this infectious agent, the disease was referred to as "epidemic polyarthritis".

Further serological testing showed that patients who had suffered "epidemic polyarthritis" in Queensland had antibodies to the virus.

It is responsible for a type of mosquito-borne non-lethal but debilitating tropical disease known as Ross River fever, previously termed "epidemic polyarthritis".

Epidemic polyarthritis is an outdated term that was used to refer to polyarthritis caused by two mosquito-borne viruses endemic to Australasia:

However, RRV was later isolated in humans following a series of epidemic polyarthritis outbreaks in Fiji, Samoa and the Cook Islands during 1979.

Other viral diseases like epidemic polyarthritis, Rift Valley fever, Ross River Fever, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus (WNV), Japanese encephalitis, La Crosse encephalitis and several other encephalitis type diseases are carried by several different mosquitoes.