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Map of distribution in the US

can be found here. Not sure if it can be uploaded though. Ian Furst (talk) 12:41, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We have had a few cases in Massachusetts. It's those who catch it down south and come up here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:6:7700:3A3:7DF6:E28F:E993:D19B (talk) 19:07, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

External Links and Further Reading

Hello. I expanded the External Links section a bit today. But I've just learned that it's best to exclude ELs which "[can] be integrated into the Wikipedia article" as it says in #3 of ELYES. Two of those links (NPR and Reuters) might meet that criteria. I'd like to try to incorporate information from those sources into the article and make those links citations instead. Meanwhile, I've moved those links to Further Reading for now. Hope that's ok, and hope it helps. :) Msannakoval (talk) 21:46, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why does the intro paras focus on "US" ??

. . .

Sigh.

Why are the introductory paragraphs focusing on the "US" ?

This is a global enyclopedia, and should not be US-centric, unless the article is actually about something that mostly concerns the US.

According to WHO, the virus is hitting other parts of the world much harder than the United States. http://www.who.int/denguecontrol/arbo-viral/other_arboviral_chikungunya/en/

Avaiki (talk) 04:21, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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"No one cares"?

In the Celebrities section, it states that "Lindsay Lohan was hospitalized for contracting Chikungunya. Most people filed this news under: 'No one cares.' " While I may share the sentiment, it seems a bit counterproductive to the wiki to include what appears to be a statement of opinion not backed by references to sources, statistics, or evidence. I recommend the bold statement's removal, and it may help to include specific dates and locations. 71.246.41.50 (talk) 02:25, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Review

NEJM doi:10.1056/NEJMra1406035 JFW | T@lk 10:34, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Move Outbreak list?

Can we move the outbreak list to the outbreaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya_outbreaks page? Right now the article has a very unwieldy epidemiology section.

Mjbailey (talk) 18:20, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes this article should have an overview. Specific cases IMO should be in the subpage. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:02, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds highly reasonable to me. juanTamad 03:31, 11 July 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jtamad (talk • contribs)

Lancet ID

The virus doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30385-1 JFW | T@lk 14:50, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup - storing some info here

Hi all, I'm doing some updating on this article -- Chikungunya has hit the big time since some of this material was written. I'm pulling a bit of info out of the article that I don't see in more recent sources and stashing it here for a moment. If I find it in other more recent sources I'll add it back:

Stashing info here
These initial symptoms last around a week, after which there is a "convalescent stage" where symptoms improve for around ten days and the virus cannot be detected in the blood.^[1] References ^ Cite error: The named reference `ThibervilleMoyen2013` was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Ajpolino (talk) 03:32, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Epidemiology ENPH 450

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 September 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Calebboudreau.

— Assignment last updated by Calebboudreau (talk) 14:40, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the Accuracy Dispute template in the "Prevention" section

I see that the Accuracy Dispute template was added to this section last month. It says "This section appears to contradict itself on the existence of an approved vaccine. Please see the talk page for more information." There is obviously no discussion of this on the Talk page at present, and in reading the section I do not see any contradictory information; the section starts off saying that a vaccine exists, though preventing mosquito bites in the first place remains the best method of prevention, and nowhere else in the section does it mention anything about a vaccine not being available. Given that there does not appear to be a contradiction, I suggest removing the template as it is not necessary. Lumberjane Lilly (talk) 22:34, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[ThibervilleMoyen2013-1] Cite error: The named reference ThibervilleMoyen2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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