States reporting chikungunya virus disease cases – United States, 2015 (as of September 15, 2015)

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Vector-Borne Diseases. ; ArboNet
• Description:
  2015 provisional data for the United States
  
  • In 2015, chikungunya virus disease became a nationally notifiable condition. Cases are reported to CDC by state and local health departments using standard case definitions.
  
  • As of September 29, 2015, a total of 478 chikungunya virus disease cases have been reported to ArboNET from 38 U.S. states for 2015 (Table 1 & Map). All reported cases occurred in travelers returning from affected areas. No locally-transmitted cases have been reported from U.S. states.
  
  • A total of 116 chikungunya virus disease cases have been reported to ArboNET from U.S. territories (Table 2). All reported cases were locally-transmitted cases reported from Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
  
  • Table 1. Laboratory-confirmed chikungunya virus disease cases reported to ArboNET by state— United States, 2015 (as of September 29, 2015)
  
  • Table 2. Laboratory-confirmed chikungunya virus disease cases reported to ArboNET by territory — United States, 2015 (as of September 29, 2015)
  
  2015map-092915.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Chikungunya Fever Chikungunya Fever/epidemiology Chikungunya Fever/epidemiology/Maps Chikungunya Virus
• Document Type:
  Map
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 map
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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  urn:sha256:04a7458be88df1cafa304e1ae4b0697996193bef52e366c9ad9f7a07cb8f7263
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