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A major chikungunya epidemic with high mortality in northeastern Brazil
Adriana Rocha Simião1,2, Francisca Kalline de Almeida Barreto1, Rhaquel de Morais Alves Barbosa Oliveira1
1Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
Introduction:
Chikungunya causes fever and severe and persistent joint pain.
Methods:
We reported a chikungunya outbreak that occurred in Ceará State, Brazil between 2016 and 2017 with emphasis on epidemiological characterization of cases, high number of deaths, mortality-associated factors, and spatial and temporal spread of the epidemic among municipalities.
Results:
In November 2015, the first autochthonous cases of chikungunya were confirmed in Ceará, Brazil. In 2016-2017, 195,993 cases were reported, with an incidence of 2,186.5/100,000 inhabitants and 244 confirmed deaths.
Conclusions:
Rapid transmission and high mortality rate are serious problems, especially in regions with co-circulating arboviruses.
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