Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2024)

Chikungunya Outbreak Risks after the 2014 Outbreak, Dominican Republic

  • Gideon Loevinsohn,
  • Cecilia Then Paulino,
  • Jessica Spring,
  • Holly R. Hughes,
  • Angela Cadavid Restrepo,
  • Helen Mayfield,
  • Michael de St. Aubin,
  • Janeen Laven,
  • Amanda Panella,
  • William Duke,
  • Marie Caroline Etienne,
  • Gabriela Abdalla,
  • Salome Garnier,
  • Naomi Iihoshi,
  • Beatriz Lopez,
  • Lucia de la Cruz,
  • Bernarda Henríquez,
  • Margaret Baldwin,
  • Farah Peña,
  • Adam J. Kucharski,
  • Marietta Vasquez,
  • Emily Zielinski Gutiérrez,
  • Aaron C. Brault,
  • Ronald Skewes-Ramm,
  • Colleen L. Lau,
  • Eric J. Nilles

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.240824
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 12
pp. 2679 – 2683

Abstract

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The 2014 chikungunya outbreak in the Dominican Republic resulted in intense local transmission, with high postoutbreak seroprevalence. The resulting population immunity will likely minimize risk for another large outbreak through 2035, but changes in population behavior or environmental conditions or emergence of different virus strains could lead to increased transmission.

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