Friday 18 July 2014

Chikungunya cases hit nearly 200 in Puerto Rico, 2 in Florida

A shopkeeper hands a customer documentation about the mosquito-born chikungunya virus at a drugstore in Lamentin, on the French Caribbean island of La Martinique on July 10, 2014 Health authorities Friday reported nearly 200 confirmed cases of the chikungunya virus in Puerto Rico and the first two cases of the mosquito-borne disease in Florida. Puerto Rico's Health Department, in its weekly report, said that, as of June 25, laboratories had confirmed the virus in 182 people and that infections were suspected in 503 more. Of the cases confirmed in Puerto Rico, nearly a third (55) were recorded during the week of June 25, health officials there said. Puerto Rico is a self-governing US territory.




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