Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2019)

Chikungunya Fever Outbreak, Zhejiang Province, China, 2017

  • Junhang Pan,
  • Chunfu Fang,
  • Juying Yan,
  • Hao Yan,
  • Bingdong Zhan,
  • Yi Sun,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Haiyan Mao,
  • Guoping Cao,
  • Lei Lv,
  • Enfu Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2508.181212
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 8
pp. 1589 – 1591

Abstract

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We report a disease outbreak caused by chikungunya virus in Zhejiang Province, China, in August 2017. Phylogenic analysis indicated that this virus belonged to the Indian Ocean clade of the East/Central/South African genotype and was imported by a traveler returning from Bangladesh.

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