A comparative analysis of the 2007 and 2017 Italian chikungunya outbreaks and implication for public health response.

• Main Authors: Beniamino Caputo (Author), Gianluca Russo (Author), Mattia Manica (Author), Francesco Vairo (Author), Piero Poletti (Author), Giorgio Guzzetta (Author), Stefano Merler (Author), Carolina Scagnolari (Author), Angelo Solimini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Key results</h4>Both outbreaks started in small towns, but cases were also detected in nearby larger cities where transmission was limited to small clusters. The time spans between the first and the last symptom onsets were similar between the 2 outbreaks, and the delay from the symp...