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Chikungunya Came to Jamaica in 2014

Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne viral disease first described during an outbreak in southern Tanzania in 1952. It is an RNA virus that belongs to the alphavirus genus of the family Togaviridae. In Jamaica, it is commonly called “Chik-V”.

Chikungunya Cases 2014

Ministry of Health

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In Jamaica, local transmission was identified on 5 August 2014. A total of 5,180 cases of Chikungunya fever were notified to the National Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health since May, 2014 and as at the end of 2015. The largest number...