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. 2019 Mar;24(11):1900162.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.11.1900162.

Travellers as sentinels of chikungunya epidemics: a family cluster among Finnish travellers to Koh Lanta, Thailand, January 2019

Anu Kantele  1
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Travellers as sentinels of chikungunya epidemics: a family cluster among Finnish travellers to Koh Lanta, Thailand, January 2019

Anu Kantele. Euro Surveill. 2019 Mar.

Abstract

In January 2019, five of 11 travellers to Koh Lanta, Thailand, contracted chikungunya, symptoms starting 4 days after presumed transmission. Four cases were hospitalised, one child treated in intensive care; 6 weeks after disease onset, all three adults have persistent arthralgias/arthritis, incapacitating for two. Together with a recent report of eight chikungunya cases among travellers to various destinations in Thailand, the high attack rate in our cluster points to an ongoing outbreak in the country.

Keywords: Thailand; chikungunya; cluster; outbreak; travel; traveller.

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