Puerto Rico declares epidemic of chikungunya

[Gert van der Hoek]

Puerto Rico confirms its 1st chikungunya case

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ? Health officials in Puerto Rico have confirmed the first chikungunya case in the U.S. territory.

Health Secretary Ana Rius says the patient is a 16-year-old girl who lives in Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan. Rius said Thursday that officials are investigating how the girl contracted the mosquito-borne disease. She said the girl did not require hospitalization.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

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Officer Of The CDC Sent To The Island To Investigate Chikungunya Virus Infections


Tuesday, June 24th, 2014

WASHINGTON DC, USA (CNM) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States (CDC) will be sending an official to assist the Department of Health to research on Chikungunya virus infections, reported Tuesday , Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi.

"In early May, the director of the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases CDC warned since December that had an outbreak of Chikungunya in the Caribbean and is likely to reach the island on 29 May the first case was confirmed in Puerto Rico, a girl of 16 and 17 June, the CDC has reported 23 cases on the island since the CDC warned about the virus, I have been asking them for their intervention; I asked inclusive educational campaign Chikungunya virus. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that I will be sending an official to assist the Department of Health to research on Chikungunya virus infections, "Pierluisi said in a press release.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

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Puerto Rico declares epidemic of chikungunya

BY AGENCIA EFE 17/07/2014

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -. Puerto Rico said Thursday the existence of a chikungunya epidemic on the island, with the rapid spread of a virus yet been confirmed in 206 people, although it is suspected that [the number] of those infected are double.

Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico, Ana Ríus, announced at a press conference that provided an administrative order to activate the necessary mechanisms to contain the spread of a disease with symptoms similar to dengue and is spread through the bite mosquito.

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The latest PAHO report (July 11) says 301 cases suspected and 107 cases confirmed.

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Puerto Rico Chickungunya Weekly Report Archive; http://www.salud.gov.pr/Chikungunya/Pages/default.aspx

Data as of July 16, 2014 18 to 25 June de 2014 (Week 25)
Summary

Week 25
200 suspected cases
55 laboratory confirmed cases

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya

Accumulated in 2014

503 suspected cases
182 laboratory confirmed cases

15 are associated recent trip

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya
0 fatalities confirmed

http://www.salud.gov.pr/Chikungunya/Informes 2014/Reporte CHIKV SEMANA25.pdf

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Data as of July 23, 2014. June 25 - July 1st 2014 (Week 26)
Summary

Week 26
140 suspected cases
6 laboratory confirmed cases

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya

Accumulated in 2014

643 suspected cases
215 laboratory confirmed cases

17 are associated recent trip

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya
0 fatalities confirmed
...
http://www.salud.gov.pr/Chikungunya/Informes 2014/Reporte CHIKV SEMANA 26.pdf

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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July 24, 2014 3:55 pm

Confirmation of Evidence of Chikungunya in the Island

Department of Health expects to receive the necessary materials, because until now were made in Atlanta

The Health Department will begin next week to perform laboratory tests that [could] confirm cases of Chikungunya virus in Puerto Rico, said Thursday Secretary Ana R?us.

As indicated, the agency is waiting to receive the materials required to start performing validations of this virus.

Until Thursday, there were 241 confirmed cases of chikungunya on the island, 700 suspected cases, Rius said. The first case was reported last May in San Juan.

Secretary of Health indicate not know how to invest the state take care of these laboratory tests.

"Health is priceless," released R?us, after completing a news conference held at the filtration plant Enrique Ortega, in Toa Alta.

He explained that these validations to this Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. However, before the emergence of the epidemic on the island, the company declared a moratorium. This meant that the local agency had to take over the analysis of chikungunya.

"It is the responsibility of the Department of Health to take control and the means to do it is this," he said to justify the measure.

Among the benefits of analyzing all laboratory tests detect chikungunya seeking is that Health will have "strict control" of the epidemic, said R?us.

Furthermore, the Secretary of Health indicated that the average in confirmed cases of the virus are 46, with 51% female and 49% male.

He also argued that people in most cases have been reported are San Juan and Carolina. In addition, one case and one case in Cayey Moca reported. "They were people who traveled to Carolina and one outside Puerto Rico," said the official.

El Nuevo Dia

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Data as of August 6, 2014. July 9 - July 15 2014 (Week 28)

Summary

Week 28
552 suspected cases
133 laboratory confirmed cases

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya

Accumulated in 2014

1,596 suspected cases
386 laboratory confirmed cases

17 are associated recent trip

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya
0 fatalities confirmed



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http://www.salud.gov.pr/Chikungunya/Informes 2014/Reporte CHIKV SEMANA 28.pdf

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Data as of August 13, 2014. July 16 - July 22 2014 (Week 29)

Summary

Week 29
946 suspected cases
111 laboratory confirmed cases

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya

Accumulated in 2014

2,549 suspected cases
690 laboratory confirmed cases

18 are associated recent trip

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya
0 fatalities confirmed

http://www.salud.gov.pr/Chikungunya/Informes 2014/Reporte CHIKV SEMANA 29.pdf

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Data as of August 27, 2014. July 30 - August 5 2014 (Week 31)

Summary

Week 31
284 suspected cases
1 laboratory confirmed cases*
* There is a delay in laboratory testing, so the number of confirmed cases of the week 31 may be higher than reported.

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya

Accumulated in 2014

4,079 suspected cases
1,207 laboratory confirmed cases

19 are associated recent trip

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya
0 fatalities confirmed


...
http://www.salud.gov.pr/Chikungunya/Informes 2014/Reporte CHIKV SEMANA 31.pdf

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2350017&CategoryId=14092

Thursday
August 28,2014
Puerto Rico Investigating Possible Chikungunya-Related Deaths

SAN JUAN ? The Puerto Rican Health Department said Thursday that it is investigating whether two people who died had contracted Chikungunya, which ? if true ? would be the first two fatalities linked to that virus on the island.

?We?re performing the appropriate tests to determine if they had Chikungunya,? Health Department epidemiologist Dr. Brenda Rivera Garcia told Efe.

She said she could not provide details regarding the identities of the patients or their respective health situations before possibly being infected ?out of respect for their relatives, who must be the first to be informed.?

But she confirmed that both patients were adults between the ages of 20 and 59...

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Data as of September 10, 2014. August 13 - August 19 2014 (Week 33)

Summary

Week 33
32 suspected cases
20 laboratory confirmed cases*
* There is a delay in laboratory testing, so the number of confirmed cases of the week 31 may be higher than reported.

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya

Accumulated in 2014

5,371 suspected cases
1,636 laboratory confirmed cases

19 are associated recent trip

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya
0 fatalities confirmed


...
http://www.salud.gov.pr/Chikungunya/Informes 2014/Reporte CHIKV SEMANA 33.pdf

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Data as of October 8, 2014. September 10 - September 16 2014 (Week 37)

Summary

Week 37
263 suspected cases
28 laboratory confirmed cases*
* There is a delay in laboratory testing, so the number of confirmed cases of the week 37 may be higher than reported.

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya

Accumulated in 2014

10,473 suspected cases
2,470 laboratory confirmed cases

25 are associated recent trip

0 virus co-infection dengue and chikungunya
3 fatalities
People at the time
of death were
infected with chikungunya
...
http://www.salud.gov.pr/Chikungunya/Informes 2014/Reporte CHIKV SEMANA 37.pdf

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/chikun...e-fever-cases-in-puerto-rico-this-year-64829/


Chikungunya outpacing dengue fever cases in Puerto Rico this year
Posted by Robert Herriman on October 25, 2014

With the introduction of the mosquito borne virus, chikungunya, in the Americas last December, we?ve seen a number of countries especially hard hit with the disease?the Dominican Republic with 486,000 cases, Guadaloupe with 80,000 cases and Colombia and El Salvador with 16,000 cases each.

On the island of Puerto Rico, the number of chikungunya cases continue to rise outpacing a related viral disease from the same mosquito vector, dengue fever...

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/puerto...ional-chikungunya-cases-one-more-death-53975/


Puerto Rico sees 1,000 additional chikungunya cases, one more death
Posted by Robert Herriman on November 19, 2014 // Leave Your Comment

The number of autochthonous chikungunya cases reported in Puerto Rico increased by another 1,000 during the last epidemiological week recorded ending Oct. 21.

During the week ending Oct. 14, Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico saw 15,750 suspected and confirmed cases of the mosquito borne virus. This jumped to 16,786 the week ending Oct. 21, an increase of 1,036 cases.

In addition, Puerto Rican health officials reported an additional fatality due to chikungunya, bring the death toll to five...

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Puerto Rico has more than 18,000 infections and five deaths associated with chikungunya

November 21, 2014

Puerto Rico and has more than 18,000 suspected cases of chikungunya and five deaths linked to the virus, according to data released today by the Department of Health of the island, which refer to the week finished on October 28.

According to these data, the more than 18,000 suspected cases, 3,385 have been tested in laboratories twice the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and only 31 are believed to have been contracted outside of Puerto Rico.

It is observed in any case in recent weeks has decreased the rate of spread of a virus which saw its peak around August.

Furthermore, it has accounted for the deaths of four people who died when they were infected with the virus, which does not mean that this was the direct cause of death.

This statistic is not including the case of a newborn who died last week infected with chikungunya virus during birth, leaving the birth canal of the mother, who already had symptoms.

Those were the explanations given by the state epidemiologist, Brenda Rivera, who explained that the death occurred six days after birth, but did not give details on when and where it took place.

Since July there declared the island an epidemic virus for which there is no vaccine or drug that is transmitted through the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which carries the same dengue.

La Tribuna

 

[Shiloh]

Source: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/he...ico-reports-more-than-4000-chikungunya-cases/
Puerto Rico reports more than 4,000 Chikungunya cases
Published December 31, 2014
EFE

Puerto Rico has logged more than 4,000 confirmed cases of infection with the Chikungunya virus this year, the Health Department said Wednesday.

Lab tests confirmed 118 new cases during the Nov. 12-Dec. 9 period, chief epidemiologist Brenda Rivera Garcia said, which brought the total to 4,185, pending data for the rest of December.

"Most of the cases confirmed in this report are in the western area of the island," she said in a statement. "It is important that residents in this region's municipalities take steps to protect themselves and to eradicate mosquito breeding sites both around houses and work areas."...

 

[Shiloh]

Source: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/puerto-rico-chikungunya-death-toll-now-at-10-38236/

Puerto Rico chikungunya death toll now at 10
Posted by Robert Herriman on January 18, 2015 The number of chikungunya cases reported in Puerto Rico from Nov. 26 to Dec. 23 is 431 suspected and 45 confirmed, according to the Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico (computer translated). Health officials do say that due to a delay in laboratory testing, the actuals numbers may be higher for the period...