Chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean region, December 2013 to March 2014, and the significance for Europe

Van Bortel, Wim; Dorléans, Frédérique; Rosine, Jacques; Blateau, Alain; Rousset, Dominique; Matheus, Séverine; Leparc-Goffart, Isabelle; Flusin, Olivier; Prat, Christine; Césaire, Raymond; Najioullah, Fatiha; Ardillon, Vanessa; Balleydier, Elsa; Neves Solon Carvalho, Letícia; Lemaître, A.; Noël, Harold; Servas, V.; Six, C.; Zurbaran, Manuel; Léon, Lucie; Guinard, Anne; van den Kerkhof, J; Aparecida Coelho de Arruda Henry, Maria; Fanoy, Ewout; Braks, Marieta; Reimerink, Johan; Swaan, Corien; Georges, Ronald; Brooks, Logan; Freedman, Joanne; Súdre, Bertrand; Zeller, H.

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.13.20759

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Chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean region, December 2013 to March 2014, and the significance for Europe

Published in Eurosurveillance • Apr 3, 2014

Authors:

Wim Van Bortel

Frédérique Dorléans

Jacques Rosine

Abstract

On 6 December 2013, two laboratory-confirmed cases of chikungunya without a travel history were reported on the French part of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, indicating the start of the first documented outbreak of chikungunya in the Americas. Since this report, the virus spread to several Ca...

Subject

Chikungunya

Outbreak

Caribbean island

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