Clinical complications of Chikungunya fever in Mauritius

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...

Neurological complications in Chikungunya fever.

OBJECTIVE The present prospective study was undertaken to study the clinical manifestations and mainly neurological complication of an acute febrile illness termed chikungunya which has recently attacked india after 43 years. METHOD This prospective study has been conducted in hospitalised patients admitted in government and private hospitals of Kota city from August 2006 to October 2006. Pat...

Epidemic Intermittent Fever in the Mauritius

fever had been registered in the Military Hospitals between the years 1823 and 1858. In the Civil Hospital for four years prior to 1866, (including all classes of the community,) only 85 cases of paludal fever had occurred j whereas in the same hospitals during the eighteen months ending June 1867, no less than 2,576 patients were under treatment suffering from intermittent fever ; and within t...

Hyperpigmentation and chikungunya fever*

Imaging findings in chikungunya fever

Radiol Bras. 2017 Mar/Abr;50(2):V Chikungunya fever is an infection that manifests clinically as acute fever and skin rash, together with disabling arthralgia, arthritis, and fatigue. The disease is caused by a virus of the family Togaviridae. The virus is transmitted to humans by the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. The diagnosis of chikungunya fever is made primarily on the basi...