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Travellers as sentinels of chikungunya epidemics: a family cluster among Finnish travellers to Koh Lanta, Thailand, January 2019
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAnu Kanteleanu.kantele hus.fi
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Citation style for this article: . Travellers as sentinels of chikungunya epidemics: a family cluster among Finnish travellers to Koh Lanta, Thailand, January 2019. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(11):pii=1900162. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.11.1900162 Received: 04 Mar 2019; Accepted: 14 Mar 2019
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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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