Chikungunya Fever, Mauritius, 2006

Chikungunya Fever, Mauritius, 2006

To the Editor: When an outbreak of chikungunya fever swept across several Indian Ocean islands in 2005 and 2006, the international public health community's attention was drawn to chikungunya virus (ge-nus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae). Among those areas affected was the Republic of Mauritius, located ≈900 km east of Madagascar, which has an estimated population of 1,250,000 and comprises the...

Chikungunya Virus, Cameroon, 2006

We report the isolation of chikungunya virus from a patient during an outbreak of a denguelike syndrome in Cameroon in 2006. The virus was phylogenetically grouped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo cluster, indicating a continuous circulation of a genetically similar chikungunya virus population during 6 years in Central Africa.

Hyperpigmentation and chikungunya fever*

Chikungunya Fever, Hong Kong

1790 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 11, November 2006 nasal cultures in 6 of the 11 members of the 2 families. In this niche, it was able to persist and cause a series of infections in a relatively large number of family members. Even though the S. aureus isolated from active lesions were not available for testing, the recovery of identical PVL-positive organisms ...

Chikungunya fever Author

Multiple outbreaks beyond West Africa have been described. Since 2004, chikungunya has spread broadly, causing massive outbreaks with explosive onset in the Indian Ocean region, India, and other parts of Asia [1-3]. Chikungunya had traditionally been perceived as a tropical disease until an outbreak in Italy in 2007. In addition, thousands of cases have been identified in travelers returning fr...