Tag: Chikungunya

• Friday, April 3rd 2015 - 08:04 UTC

  US warning to vacation and business travellers about the advance of Chikungunya

  

  The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is warning vacation and business travelers to the Caribbean about the importance of protecting themselves from mosquitoes that may transmit Chikungunya virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue.

• Tuesday, December 2nd 2014 - 06:15 UTC

  Imported chikungunya reaches UK: 197 cases reported so far

  

  British public health officials say they are grappling with an escalating number of cases of the debilitating chikungunya virus, as holidaymakers return from Caribbean countries.

• Friday, November 14th 2014 - 08:03 UTC

  Fears of a new Chikungunya viral strain in Brazil with the coming of summer

  

  The Chikungunya outbreak which continues to affect thousands of Caribbean residents since it first appeared in St. Martin last year has been relatively self-limiting in the United States, due to the fact that the current strain only spreads through the Aedes egypti mosquito vector, which is uncommon on the US Eastern seaboard.

• Friday, October 24th 2014 - 20:17 UTC

  France reports four cases of chikungunya locally acquired infections

  

  On 21 October 2014, WHO was notified by the National IHR Focal Point for France of 4 cases of chikungunya locally-acquired infection in Montpellier, France. The cases were confirmed by tests conducted by the French National Reference Laboratory for arboviruses on 20 October 2014. This is the first time that locally-acquired transmission of chikungunya has been detected in France since 2010.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2014 - 06:24 UTC

  Mysterious outbreak of hemorrhagic fever syndrome in Venezuela kills ten

  

  An outbreak of a mysterious hemorrhagic fever syndrome in the Venezuelan state of Aragua and the country’s capital Caracas has left ten people dead in the last three weeks. Reports indicate that nine people have so far succumbed to the disease in the northern state and a tenth person has died in the capital.

• Wednesday, August 6th 2014 - 08:47 UTC

  Caribbean Chikungunya cases over half a million, says PA health organization

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says the number of new cases of the Chikungunya in the Caribbean increased by nearly 38,000 last week with the Dominican Republic having the most cases.

• Wednesday, May 21st 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  Mosquito-borne Chikunguna cases reported in Miami

  

  The viral mosquito-borne disease, Chikunguna, has been confirmed in three counties of the state of Florida. According to the Florida Department of Health, the women who recently travelled to the Caribbean include a 29-year-old from Broward County.

• Monday, May 5th 2014 - 06:31 UTC

  Mosquito transmitted Chikungunya has become an epidemic in the Caribbean

  

  The head of the Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA), Dr James Hospedales, has declared the Chikungunya virus has reached epidemic proportions in the Caribbean. The mosquito-borne illness was first detected in the Caribbean in December 2013, in St Martin, and last week Antigua and St Vincent and the Grenadines became the latest countries to declare an outbreak.

• Wednesday, April 16th 2014 - 04:36 UTC

  Warnings of 'catastrophic' Chikungunya epidemic; fears it could spread during the World Cup

  

  A team of French and Brazilian researchers warn that chikungunya virus is poised to invade, and become epidemic in the Americas according to research published ahead of print in the Journal of Virology.