Volume 19, Number 10—October 2013
Dispatch
Chikungunya Fever Outbreak, Bhutan, 2012
Sonam Wangchuk, Piyawan Chinnawirotpisan, Tshering Dorji, Tashi Tobgay, Tandin Dorji, In-Kyu Yoon, and Stefan Fernandez
Table 1
IgM ELISA results and signs and symptoms for patients with suspected chikungunya fever, Bhutan, 2012
| District, patient sex | No. patients | Mean age, y | No. positive samples/no. tested (%) | No. patients for whom medical history obtained | No. (%) patients with sign/symptom |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fever | Arthralgia | Headache | Rash | |||||
| Chuka | ||||||||
| F | 21 | 19.6 | 2/21 (9.5) | 3 | 3 (100) | 1 (33) | 0 | 0 |
| M |
28 |
28.8 |
8/27 (29.6) |
5 |
5 (100) |
2 (40) |
3 (60) |
0 |
| Samtse | ||||||||
| F | 40 | 28.2 | 3/39 (7.7) | 25 | 25 (100) | 14 (56) | 19 (76) | 3 (12) |
| M |
50 |
28.2 |
7/47 (14.9) |
30 |
30 (100) |
16 (53) |
20 (67) |
1 (3) |
| Thimphu | ||||||||
| F | 23 | 32.4 | 6/23 (26.1) | 2 | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | 0 |
| M |
53 |
36.1 |
10/53 (18.9) |
14 |
14 (100) |
13 (93) |
11 (79) |
2 (14) |
| Total | 215 | – | 36/210 (17) | 79 | 79 (100) | 48 (60.1) | 55 (69.6) | 6 (7.6) |
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