| zika virus infection in australia following a monkey bite in indonesia. | a traveller returning to australia developed zika virus infection, with fever, rash and conjunctivitis, with onset five days after a monkey bite in bali, indonesia. flavivirus rna detected on pcr from a nasopharyngeal swab was sequenced and identified as zika virus. although mosquito-borne transmission is also possible, we propose the bite as a plausible route of transmission. the literature for non-vector transmissions of zika virus and other flaviviruses is reviewed. | 2015 | 26521519 |