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| *arboviral infection spread by mosquitoes found mostly in West and East Africa, around the Indian Ocean, Asia, and South East Asis including the Pacific Islands | *arboviral infection spread by mosquitoes found mostly in West and East Africa, around the Indian Ocean, Asia, and South East Asis including the Pacific Islands | ||
| *NOT acquired in Australia - no known cases as of 2025 although the mosquitoes which can transmit it (//Aedes aegypti// and //Aedes albopictus// | *NOT acquired in Australia - no known cases as of 2025 although the mosquitoes which can transmit it (//Aedes aegypti// and //Aedes albopictus// | ||
| + | *Réunion Island (east of Madagasgar) from August 2024 to June 2025, experienced a massive chikungunya epidemic, with more than 54,000 confirmed cases and 43 deaths, making it the second major Chikungunya virus outbreak on the island after the 2005-2006 epidemic, which had affected about a third of the islands' | ||
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