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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has identified the state’s first two cases of travel-associated chikungunya virus. The patients, both of whom are adults from Sedgwick County, reported recent, but separate, travel to the Caribbean.  “Chikungunya virus can…
Health Vice Minister MarĂa Esther AnchĂa on Friday confirmed that a French tourist is officially the first patient to test positive for the Chikungunya virus in Costa Rica. The woman, whose identity was not disclosed, visited Costa Rica from May 10-21. She first showed symptoms…
Paraguayan authorities reported on Monday the first case of Chikungunya virus in the country after a citizen got infected in the Dominican Republic.  An official communiquĂ© by the country’s Health Ministry explained that a Paraguayan citizen returned to the…
Although there are no reported cases of chikungunya in Jamaica, the Ministry of Health remains on high alert as the mosquito-borne virus continues to spread across the Caribbean The country has beefed up its surveillance and vector-control measures amid reports…
The number of chikungunya cases in the Caribbean has more than tripled in a month. As of this week, the region is reporting 4,576 confirmed and 165,990 suspected cases of the virus, for a total of 170,566, according to the Pan…
US health officials are on high alert as a mosquito-borne virus that yet has no cure has struck six of the US states. The virus called chikungunya causes severe joint pain which can last for years. The latest case of…
Less than 24 hours after St Vincent and the Grenadines confirmed an outbreak of the chikungunya virus, another Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country is reporting its first case of the mosquito-borne disease. Antigua and Barbuda health officials Friday held a news…
We’ve told you before about the chikungunya virus that’s been hitting the tropics recently; now, the U.S. State Department is warning travelers that the mosquito-borne disease has reached the Dominican Republic. The outbreak is not widespread, but the disease has some serious symptoms…
Virus Advances Through East Caribbean A painful mosquito-borne virus common in Africa and Asia has advanced quickly throughout the eastern Caribbean in the past two months, raising the prospect that a once-distant illness will become entrenched throughout the region, public…
Chikungunya Virus Spreads To More Caribbean Islands What began with just 10 confirmed cases of the chikungunya virus on the French side of St. Martin last month has quickly spiraled into a much larger outbreak with nearly 300 confirmed cases…