Dangerous infection outbreak hit India in height of tourist season

UFA, 29 May 2018. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. In the height of the tourist season, an outbreak hit India, according to Rosturizm. There are more than nine thousand confirmed cases of infection with chikungunya fever.

The disease is most common in the Indian states of Karnataka, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. The disease spreading is expected in the coming months.

The Federal Agency for Tourism encourages tour operators planning tours to India, to inform their clients about the unfavorable epidemiological situation in connection with chikungunya fever and give recommendations for the prevention of this disease.

Rostourism recommends that Russian tourists planning to travel to India take into account the epidemiological situation and take preventive measures.

Chikungunya fever is a viral infection that is transmitted with bites of bloodsucking insects. Mainly the carriers of the disease are mosquitoes of two species Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, which can also transmit other viruses, including dengue fever.

The main symptoms of the disease are a rise in temperature to 40 degrees, headaches, pain in the muscles and joints. In most cases, the disease does not lead to life-threatening complications, but it can pose a threat to the elderly and people with weakened immunity. There are no special antiviral drugs for the treatment of chikungunya fever.