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

• Glavni autori: Leora R Feldstein (Autor), Esther M Ellis (Autor), Ali Rowhani-Rahbar (Autor), Morgan J Hennessey (Autor), J Erin Staples (Autor), M Elizabeth Halloran (Autor), Marcia R Weaver (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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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...