Preparedness for Threat of Chikungunya in the Pacific
Adam Roth
, Damian Hoy, Paul F. Horwood, Berry Ropa, Thane Hancock, Laurent Guillaumot, Keith Rickart, Pascal Frison, Boris Pavlin, and Yvan Souares
Author affiliations: Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia (A. Roth, D. Hoy, P. Frison, Y. Souares); Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea (P.F. Horwood); National Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (B. Ropa); Yap State Department of Health Services, Federated States of Micronesia (T. Hancock); Institut Pasteur, Noumea (L. Guillaumot); Queensland Health, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (K. Rickart); World Health Organization, Port Moresby (B. Pavlin)
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Figure 1. Chikungunya epidemic in Papua New Guinea, 2012–2013Colors denote the time for reports or rumors of emerging clinical diseaseWhen such information was lacking, the date of laboratory confirmation of chikungunya virus infection determined the color codingSolid colors indicate that cases were laboratory confirmed; striped colors indicate lack of laboratory confirmation.
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