Chikungunya continues to expand in Americas
Robert Roos
CIDRAP News
Jun 27, 2014
Chikungunya is continuing to expand in the Caribbean and neighboring parts of the Americas, with media or government reports of the first associated cases in Mexico and Grenada, a suspected case in the Cayman Islands, and two locally acquired cases in Venezuela.
In Mexico, Spanish-language reports cited a case in a person who had traveled to Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean to attend sports events. The man’s illness was diagnosed on Jun 20.
In Grenada, the health ministry yesterday reported five chikungunya cases on Carriacou, a smaller neighboring island that is under Grenada’s jurisdiction. The cases were confirmed on Jun 25 by the Caribbean Public Health Agency, the statement said.
The ministry didn’t say specifically whether the cases, which were reported in two villages, were imported or locally acquired.
Venezuela has identified cases in two people who had not traveled recently, suggesting the infections were locally acquired, according to a computer translation of a report in El Nacional, a Caracas newspaper. The translation was posted on FluTrackers, an infectious-disease message board.
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