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Chikungunya, an arboviral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, has recently
increased dramatically in incidence and geographic extent. Large outbreaks have affected
islands of the Indian Ocean, India and other parts of South and Southeast Asia, Africa and
most recently Italy. International travellers have disseminated new strains of the virus, some
into regions from which chikungunya has hitherto been absent. In parallel, over the past 30
years international trade has resulted in the spread of A. albopictus from its original range in …