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

W Van Bortel ([email protected])1, F Dorleans2, J Rosine2, A Blateau2, D Rousset3, S Matheus3, I Leparc-Goffart4, O Flusin4, C M Prat4, R Césaire5, F Najioullah5, V Ardillon6, E Balleydier7, L Carvalho6, A Lemaître8, H Noël8, V Servas9, C Six10, M Zurbaran8, L Léon8, A Guinard 11, J van den Kerkhof12, M Henry13, E Fanoy12,14,15, M Braks12, J Reimerink12, C Swaan12, R Georges16, L Brooks17, J Freedman18, B Sudre1, H Zeller1 1. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden 2. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Fort-de-France, Martinique 3. National Reference Centre, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana 4. National Reference Centre, IRBA, Marseille, France 5. University Hospital Laboratory of virology, Fort-de-France, Martinique 6. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Cayenne, French Guiana 7. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Saint-Denis, La Réunion 8. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Paris, France 9. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Bordeaux, France 10. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Marseille, France 11. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Toulouse, France 12. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 13. Section General Public Health of the Department of Collective Prevention Services, Sint Maarten 14. European Programme for Intervention and Epidemiology Training, Stockholm, Sweden 15. Public Health Service Region of Utrecht, Zeist, the Netherlands 16. Ministry of Health and Social Development, British Virgin Islands 17. Ministry of Social Development, Government of Anguilla 18. Public Health England, United Kingdom