Volume 14, Number 3—March 2008
Research
Chikungunya Fever in Travelers Returning to Europe from the Indian Ocean Region, 2006
Table 1
Characteristics of chikungunya fever patients for whom travel and disease histories were known
| Location visited | Age, y |
Sex |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Range | M | F | ||
| Mauritius (n = 69) | 48.2 | 16–72 | 28 | 41 | |
| Seychelles (n = 17) | 47.9 | 24–74 | 7 | 10 | |
| India (n = 15) | 45.6 | 22–76 | 5 | 10 | |
| Réunion Island (n = 10) | 47.3 | 17–78 | 3 | 7 | |
| Madagascar (n = 5) | 45.2 | 29–53 | 4 | 1 | |
| Sri Lanka (n = 3) | 38.7 | 34–48 | 3 | 0 | |
| Kenya (n = 1) | 47 | NA* | 1 | 0 | |
| Indonesia (n = 1) | 56 | NA | 0 | 1 | |
| Total (n = 121) | 47.4 | 16–78 | 51 | 70 | |
*NA, not applicable.
