Chikungunya -- Worldwide/Unknown
Background: Since its 1st detection in the Caribbean in late 2013, chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has affected 51 countries in the Americas. The CHIKV epidemic in the Americas was caused by the CHIKV-Asian genotype. In August 2014, local transmission of the CHIKV-Asian genotype was detected in the Brazilian Amazon region. However, a distinct lineage, the CHIKV-East-Central-South-America (ECSA) genotype, was detected nearly simultaneously in Feira de Santana, Bahia state, northeast Brazil. The
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