Chikungunya Virus and the Global Spread of a Mosquito-Borne Disease.

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Chikungunya Virus and the Global Spread of a Mosquito-Borne Disease.

N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar 26;372(13):1231-1239

Authors: Weaver SC, Lecuit M

Abstract
Chikungunya virus infection is a rapid-onset, febrile disease with intense asthenia, arthralgia, myalgia, headache, and rash. This mosquito-borne alphavirus has spread throughout the Caribbean and into much of Central America. Further spread in the Americas seems likely.

PMID: 25806915 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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