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Using Big Healthcare Data to Supplement Chikungunya Surveillance in the U.S.

Using Big Healthcare Data to Supplement Chikungunya Surveillance in the U.S.

Authors of this article:

Joel Greenspan ;   Silvia Valkova
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    Chikungunya is not a U.S. nationally notifiable disease and tracking travel-associated and locally acquired cases is currently dependent on voluntary reporting via ArboNET. Electronic healthcare reimbursement claims covering a large proportion of visits to providers'' offices may help overcome some of the limitations of ArboNET in documenting timing, occurrence, and spread of Chikungunya in the U.S.