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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Authors:

Felipe Scassi Salvador, Dennis Minoru Fujita

Dear Editor,
In the beginning of 2015, several cases of Dengue and Chikungunya virus infections were reported in Brazil [1]. Dengue epidemics are located in the states of São Paulo (637,029 confirmed cases), Minas Gerais (166,360 confirmed cases), Goiás (121,501 confirmed cases), Pernambuco (68,510 confirmed cases), Ceará (59,074 confirmed cases), Rio de Janeiro (49,480 confirmed cases), Paraná (46,694 confirmed cases), Bahia (42,476 confirmed cases), Rio Grande do Norte (21,194 confirmed cases), Mato Grosso do Sul (18,663 confirmed cases), Paraíba  (18,018 confirmed cases), Espírito  Santo (16,477 confirmed cases), Alagoas (13,846 confirmed cases) e Mato Grosso (13,700 confirmed cases). For Chikungunya virus infection, the state of Bahia appears as first in number of confirmed cases (7820), followed by Amapá(1070) and Federal District (194).

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