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First chikungunya case recorded

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BARBADOS HAS recorded its first case confirmed case of chikungunya.
Minister of Health, John Boyce, made the disclosure at a Press conference at the ministry a short while ago.
He stressed that it was an imported case in a male who arrived in Barbados on May 25. That person has since returned to his home country. (YB)

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