Reappearance of chikungunya, formerly called dengue, in the Americas
Autor(es): Halstead Scott B
Resumo: After an absence of ?200 years, chikungunya returned to the American tropics in 2013. The virus is maintained in a complex African zoonotic cycle but escapes into an urban cycle at 40- to 50-year intervals, causing global p-emics. In 1823, classical chikungunya, a viral exanthem in humans, occurred on Zanzibar, - in 1827, it arrived in the Caribbean - spread to North - South America. In Zanzibar, the disease was known as kidenga pepo, Swahili for a sudden cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit; in Cuba, it was known as dengue, a Spanish homonym of denga. During the eighteenth century, dengue (present-day chikungunya) was distinguished from breakbone fever (present-day dengue), another febrile exanthem. In the twentieth century, experiments resulted in the recovery - naming of present-day dengue viruses. In 1952, chikungunya virus was recovered during an outbreak in Tanzania, but by then, the virus had lost its original name to present-day dengue viruses.
Palavras-Chave: Aedes aegypti; Aedes albopictus; Africa; American tropics; Arthropod-borne viruses; Arthropodborne viruses; Chikungunya; Dengue; Flavivirus; History of medicine; Mosquitoborne; Mosquitoes; The Americas; Togavirus; Vectorborne; Viruses; Zoonoses
Imprenta: Emerging Infectious Diseases, v. 21, n. 4, p. 557-561, 2015
Identificador do objeto digital: 10.3201/eid2103.141723
Descritores: Chikungunya virus - Flaviviridae ; Chikungunya virus - Infectious diseases ; Chikungunya virus - Viral infections ; Chikungunya Virus - Virus ; Chikungunya virus - Chikungunya fever ; Chikungunya virus - Dengue ; Chikungunya virus - Epidemiology
Data de publicação: 2015
