Surveillance Report: Chikungunya Virus Disease; Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017

Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 4/2019. This six-page report, based on data for 2017 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on December 10, 2018, details how in 2017, 10 countries reported 548 cases of chikungunya virus disease, of which 461 (84.1 percent) were confirmed. For the first time since 2014, autochthonous chikungunya cases were reported from continental Europe by France (n=17) and Italy (n=277). (PDF)
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