Data from the National Epidemiology Unit. Epidemiology is the branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne viral disease first described during an outbreak in southern Tanzania in 1952. It is an RNA virus that belongs to the alphavirus genus of the family Togaviridae. In Jamaica, it is commonly called “Chik-V”.
In Jamaica, local transmission was identified on 5 August 2014. A total of 5,180 cases of Chikungunya fever were notified to the National Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health since May, 2014 and as at the end of 2015. The largest number...
Geospatial Data provided as GeoJSON in a CSV column. Other useful variables included are Region, Parish, Address and Telephone.
A Weekly Epidemiology Bulletin is publish to our [website](http://moh.gov.jm/bulletins) as PDFs. Some of this data is available here in CSV format.
