Letter to the editor The first Chikungunya case from Sonipat district near the national capital city of Delhi, India

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Copyright © 2010 Kumari et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease, is caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus belonging to the Togaviridae family. After a gap of about 32 years, the infection re-emerged in India in 2005 [1,2]. In 2005-2006, the years of emergence, several areas in southern India were affected by a chikungunya outbreak [3]. However, in 2006, chikungunya cases were reported for the first time from northern India, where 52 cases were detected from the Delhi regio