Costa Rica: 2015 Chikungunya

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Source: http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/01/19/health-officials-report-106-cases-of-chikungunya-in-costa-rica

Health officials report 106 cases of chikungunya in Costa Rica
L. Arias
1 hour ago

Costa Rica?s Health Ministry on Monday reported that 106 people have been infected with chikungunya. Of those, 70 contracted the virus in the country.

The ministry?s Health Surveillance Unit Director Roberto Castro said that most cases involved residents from the central and northern Pacific regions, particularly in the Guanacaste communities of Abangares and Carrillo. Cases also were reported in Garabito and the Central canton of Puntarenas.

Castro reported that 68 percent of infected patients are women aged 20-49. Fewer than 1 percent of the total number are children under 10...

 

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Source: http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/07/25...ear-chikungunya-virus-central-pacific-cantons

Costa Rican health officials report first cases this year of chikungunya virus in Jac?, Garabito
L. Arias 2 hours ago

Health Ministry officials this week reported that so far this year a total of 142 people have contracted the chikungunya virus in Costa Rica, among them the first confirmed cases this year of people infected in the central Pacific cantons of Garabito and Jac?.

The first cases of chikungunya in the country were diagnosed in late July 2014 and health officials have since registered a total of 748 cases in all seven provinces...