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

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Daniel M Pastula, W Thane Hancock, Martin Bel, Holly Biggs, Maria Marfel, Robert Lanciotti, Janeen Laven, Tai-Ho Chen, J Erin Staples, Marc Fischer, Susan L Hills
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Main Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005410; https://doaj.org/article/b7ce273b24f34700975e1715a32b9b4e

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...