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Australia: 2013 Chikungunya cases

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Source: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/asian-virus-hits-wa/story-fnii5tho-1226729082419


Asian virus hits WA

Kieran Campbell
The Sunday Times
September 28, 2013 4:10PM


COMPLACENT Australian holidaymakers are being struck down by a debilitating and potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus.

The number of people returning from holidays to Bali and other parts of Asia with the chikungunya virus has skyrocketed this year and is expected to climb further during the upcoming wet season. And West Australians have been worst hit...

...A record 107 Australians contracted chikungunya in the first nine months of this year, compared with only 19 last year and 37 in 2011.
 
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Source: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...hikungunya-virus/story-fnhocxo3-1226791208266

West Aussies urged to take extra care in Bali amid spike in Chikungunya virus

KARA VICKERY Health Reporter
PerthNow
December 26, 2013 3:27PM

...The latest Health Department data shows 51 reports of chikungunya virus have been made in WA since the start of the year - the most on record for the illness, which can leave victims with aching joints and inflammation for months.

A department alert said the spike was "wholly attributable" to an increase in cases from people who had been to Bali.

"The vast majority of cases (92 per cent) reported recent travel to Indonesia, and among these, 94 per cent had been to Bali," the alert said.

"The remaining four chikungunya cases in 2013 acquired their infections in Papua New Guinea, Singapore and an unspecified location in South-East Asia."

Just 31 cases of chikungunya virus were reported by West Australians between 2008 and 2012, an average of six per year...
 
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