Estimating the cost of illness and burden of disease associated with the 2014-2015 chikungunya outbreak in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

• Main Authors: Leora R Feldstein (Author), Esther M Ellis (Author), Ali Rowhani-Rahbar (Author), Morgan J Hennessey (Author), J Erin Staples (Author), M Elizabeth Halloran (Author), Marcia R Weaver (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus that causes fever and severe polyarthralgia, swept through the Americas in 2014 with almost 2 million suspected or confirmed cases reported by April 2016. In this study, we estimate the direct medical costs, cost of lost wages due to absenteeism, and years li...