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Chikungunya: what UK travellers should know about this mosquito-borne virus

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par Paul Hunter, Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia

The UK’s Health Security Agency has advised overseas travellers to take precautions to avoid contracting the potentially severe mosquito-borne virus, Chikungunya.

This warning was issued in response to recently published data, which shows that during the first six months of this year, there have been 73 reported cases of Chikungunya virus in England. Only 27 cases were reported during the same time last year. All of these infections were associated with…

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