Dengue-like chikungunya virus reported in El Salvador

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Dengue-like chikungunya virus reported in El Salvador

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dengue-chikungunya-virus-reported-el-salvador-214911409.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2WuFHuApZZcF5b9kLjy9pA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/60a17aa3bc1113de6913d0b428ba8bea26428393.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Employees of the Dominican Ministry of Public Health stick posters on a wall during an information campaign to prevent the spread of the mosquito which transmits the Chikungunya virus in Santo Domingo on May 30, 2014" align="left" title="Employees of the Dominican Ministry of Public Health stick posters on a wall during an information campaign to prevent the spread of the mosquito which transmits the Chikungunya virus in Santo Domingo on May 30, 2014" border="0" /></a>Salvadoran health authorities confirmed Saturday that a dengue-like disease that has been spreading across the Caribbean has now appeared in the Central-American country. Health Minister Violeta Menjivar said at least 1,200 people have been formally diagnosed with the chikungunya viral disease, although the positive testing must still be confirmed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Menjivar, interviewed by state-run Channel 10 television, said that cases were found on the outskirts of the Ayutuxtepeque municipality just outside the capital San Salvador. In that area at the end of May, the ministry's epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists detected an outbreak of a rare viral disease that caused fever and skin rash, which they said affected at least 181 people.</p><br clear="all"/>

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