Chikungunya cases reported in Nickerie District

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SURINAME – A few  chikungunya cases were reported recently in Nieuw-Nickerie. Officials from the Nickerie office of the Public Health Bureau (BOG) indicated that there are four confirmed cases and one suspected case of chikungunyain Suriname’s rice district. Environment Inspector Sigfried Enjoem indicated that the results of an investigation indicate that most of the cases involve people who had visited neighboring Guyana for a couple of days…[+]