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The laboratory of the Istituto Superiore di Sanit E0-ISS (Superior 

Institute of Health), the leading technical and scientific public 

body of the Italian National Health Service, has confirmed that the 

blood samples, taken from patients in the small city of Castiglione 

(province in Ravenna, Italy), have resulted positive for the 

mosquito-borne chikungunya fever [virus].



Meanwhile other clinical cases are emerging in neighboring places.



Castiglione is a few kilometers south south-east of Ravenna, in 

Emilia Romagna Region, Italy.



--

Dr. Walter Oscar Pavan, M.D.

Emilia Romagna Region - Department of Health

Public Health Service

Lyme Borreliosis Regional Referral Centre

Via Zaccagnini, 22

48018 Faenza - Italy





chikungunya virus outbreak in Italy. Given the potential of mobility 

of virus-infected people before they become too ill to move far, it 

is not surprising that this virus is being transported to nearby 

areas where _Aedes albopictus_ vectors are present, extending the 

further reports on the extent of the outbreak, the numbers of cases 

occurring over time, and success of the vector control efforts.



A map of the Emilia Romagna region and its location in Italy can be accessed at



Chikungunya, imported, risk of transmission  20070125.0338

2006

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