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Chikungunya Epidemic Mortality in India: Lessons from 17th Century Bills of Mortality Still Relevant [PDF]

Chikungunya is a virus spread by the bite of the Aedes mosquito, which recently reemerged as a massive epidemic in the Indian Ocean islands and India. Chikungunya is generally considered self-limiting and has been reported as non-fatal but, since March ...
Mavalankar, Dileep, Ramani, K. V., Shastri Priya   +2 more
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What's unusual in online disease outbreak news? [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Accurate and timely detection of public health events of international concern is necessary to help support risk assessment and response and save lives.
Collier, Nigel
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Socio‐Economic Effects on the Temporal Importance of Breeding Site Types for Aedes aegypti in a Tropical Epidemic City

Zoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) is the vector of dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever, arboviruses of major public health importance. The mosquito has a high adaptability, requiring the elimination of its primary breeding sites.
Mariana Mayumi Zanoni, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira Santos, Alessandra Gutierrez de Oliveira   +2 more
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Congenital chikungunya infection and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 months follow up- A case series from North India

Journal of Pediatric Critical Care, 2019
Introduction : Early and late neurologic complications of congenital chikungunya fever has been underreported in published literature. We describe the acute clinical manifestations and long term neurodevelopmental outcomes of congenital chikungunya in a ...
Bichitrananda Raut, Susanta Kumar Badatya, Sweta Kumari, Neelam Kler, Pankaj Garg, Anup Thakur   +5 more
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Insect and Mice Infestations in Gaza Displacement Camps: A Field‐Based Study on Vector‐Borne Diseases Amid the 2023–2025 Gaza War

Public Health Challenges, Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2025.
GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Conflict‐driven destruction in Gaza has caused water and sanitation collapse, leading to infestations of rodents and insects, escalating public health risks among displaced populations. ABSTRACT The current study investigates the severe environmental and public health impacts resulting from the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip ...
Zuhair Dardona, Samia Boussaa
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic and clinical characteristics of chikungunya patients from six Colombian cities, 2014–2015

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2019
In 2014, the chikungunya virus reached Colombia for the first time, resulting in a nationwide epidemic. The objective of this study was to describe the demographics and clinical characteristics of suspected chikungunya cases.
Juan C. Rueda, Ana M. Santos, Jose-Ignacio Angarita, Rodrigo B. Giraldo, Eugenia-Lucia Saldarriaga, Jesús Giovanny Ballesteros Muñoz, Elías Forero, Hugo Valencia, Francisco Somoza, Daniel Martin-Arsanios, Elias-Josué Quintero, Viviana Reyes-Martinez, Diana Padilla, Francy M. Cuervo, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas, Mario H. Cardiel, Paula X. Pavía, John Londono   +17 more
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Antibacterial and antiviral activity of a highly efficient electrospun r‐PET nanofiber

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 103, Issue 11, Page 5249-5263, November 2025.
Abstract Since the COVID‐19 pandemic, the emergence of clean air has increased interest in developing antimicrobial air filters, targeting sterilization and public health concerns. Nanofibers are a promising approach due to their high efficiency in air filtration, while nanoparticles adhered to the fibre surfaces can improve safety due to the biocidal ...
Karine Machry, Danilo M. Melo, Daniela Patrícia Freire Bonfim, Paulo Augusto Marques Chagas, Felipe de Aquino Lima, Clovis Wesley Oliveira de Souza, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueredo, Mônica Lopes Aguiar, André Bernardo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The challenge of chronic chikungunya

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2017
Since the early 2000's, chikungunya has been considered to be a rapidly expanding, re-emerging, tropical disease. This led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) together with the World Health Organization (WHO) to organize an expert consultation in June 2015.
Javelle, Emilie, Gautret, Philippe, Ribéra, Anne, Gaüzère, Bernard Alex, Cabié, André, Corail, Patrick René, Simon, Fabrice   +6 more
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The global health and economic burden of chikungunya from 2011 to 2020: a model-driven analysis on the impact of an emerging vector-borne disease

BMJ Global Health
Introduction Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne arboviral disease posing an emerging global public health threat. Understanding the global burden of chikungunya is critical for designing effective prevention and control strategies.
Adrianne Marije de Roo, Gerard Timmy Vondeling, Martijn Boer, Kristy Murray, Maarten Jacobus Postma   +4 more
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Outbreak of Chikungunya in the Republic of Congo and the global picture

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011
Chikungunya fever is a crippling disease caused by an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) transmitted to humans through mosquitoes.  Although Chikungunya virus is not often associated with mortality, the effects of virus outbreaks are often devastating ...
Alyson Ann Kelvin
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