Outbreak of chikungunya virus hits Indonesian village

AFP, September, 2006

JAKARTA (AFP) — Indonesian health authorities have contained an outbreak of the chikungunya virus in a village in South Sumatra after about a sixth of the population there were infected, a doctor said. "It is now under control as our teams have intervened quite early in Sungai Dua (village)," said Syahrul Muhammad, the head of the South Sumatra province health office on Monday.

He told AFP that the outbreak began at the end of ...