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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.

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Travellers as sentinels of chikungunya epidemics: a family cluster among Finnish travellers to Koh Lanta, Thailand, January 2019
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Anu+Kantele&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Kantele Anu</a></span>. Travellers as sentinels of chikungunya epidemics: a family cluster among Finnish travellers to Koh Lanta, Thailand, January 2019. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2019;24(11):pii=1900162. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.11.1900162" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.11.1900162</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 04 Mar 2019;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 14 Mar 2019 </span> </p>
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