Chikungunya virus disease outbreak in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia.

• Main Authors: Daniel M Pastula (Author), W Thane Hancock (Author), Martin Bel (Author), Holly Biggs (Author), Maria Marfel (Author), Robert Lanciotti (Author), Janeen Laven (Author), Tai-Ho Chen (Author), J Erin Staples (Author), Marc Fischer (Author), Susan L Hills (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne alphavirus which causes an acute febrile illness associated with polyarthralgia. Beginning in August 2013, clinicians from the Yap State Department of Health in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) identified an unusual cluster of illness which wa...