Megacities as drivers of national outbreaks: The 2017 chikungunya outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• Main Authors: Ayesha S Mahmud (Author), Md Iqbal Kabir (Author), Kenth Engø-Monsen (Author), Sania Tahmina (Author), Baizid Khoorshid Riaz (Author), Md Akram Hossain (Author), Fahmida Khanom (Author), Md Mujibor Rahman (Author), Md Khalilur Rahman (Author), Mehruba Sharmin (Author), Dewan Mashrur Hossain (Author), Shakila Yasmin (Author), Md Mokhtar Ahmed (Author), Mirza Afreen Fatima Lusha (Author), Caroline O Buckee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Several large outbreaks of chikungunya have been reported in the Indian Ocean region in the last decade. In 2017, an outbreak occurred in Dhaka, Bangladesh, one of the largest and densest megacities in the world. Population mobility and fluctuations in population densi...