Cayman IslandsPapua New GuBermudaIndonesiaMayotteVirgin IslandsLocal transmission of chikungunya virusMauritiusIndiaSeychellesPierre And MiquelonChikungunyaCountries and territoriesAntarcticaLeeward IslandsDiego GarciaFaroe IslandsAland IslandsComorosMadagascarChagos ArchipelagoAFRICAChikungunya virus
Cayman Islands3
- The Cayman Islands in the Caribbean is the most populous British overseas territory. (worldatlas.com)
- The British overseas territory of the Cayman Islands is located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica . (worldatlas.com)
- The Cayman Islands were first colonized by the British in the 18th and 19th centuries. (worldatlas.com)
Papua New Gu1
- The Oceania region, which includes Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean, has historically been free from chikungunya. (who.int)
Bermuda2
- Bermuda is located in the Atlantic Ocean , about 1,050 km east of the US state of North Carolina . (worldatlas.com)
- The territory was first settled in 1609, by English colonists who originally planned to settle in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia, but became shipwrecked in Bermuda. (worldatlas.com)
Indonesia2
- The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. (wikipedia.org)
- The British Indian Ocean Territory is located in the Indian Ocean , about halfway between East Africa and Indonesia. (worldatlas.com)
Mayotte7
- MAMOUDZOU (FRANCE) - On the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, clashes between machete-wielding gangs have left at least one dead, highlighting chronic crime problems that have rung alarm bells in Paris. (bangkokpost.com)
- The outbreak of violence underscores declining living standards in Mayotte and has brought to the fore longstanding accusations of neglect by the Paris government, which are often heard in other overseas French territories in the Caribbean and Pacific. (bangkokpost.com)
- Mayotte was paralysed for six weeks by strikes and blockades in 2018, and the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe both erupted in violent protests last year. (bangkokpost.com)
- He called on the government to reach an agreement to stem the flow of people from the Comoros Islands, which claims Mayotte as part of its territory and has several UN resolutions condemning France in its favour. (bangkokpost.com)
- We investigated cases in 4 patients returning from Mayotte and Reunion Islands with CHIKV infection and a nurse infected in metropolitan France after direct contact with the blood of a traveler. (cdc.gov)
- Thereafter the virus has circulated in other islands, including Reunion and Mayotte (2 French territories), Mauritius, the Seychelles, and Madagascar ( 12 - 15 ). (cdc.gov)
- This genotype gained dominance in 2004 and 2005 when it was introduced from Kenya into the Indian Ocean islands of Comoros, Réunion, Seychelles, Mauritius and Mayotte where it was associated with an outbreak involving hundreds of thousands of reported cases. (who.int)
Virgin Islands8
- Virgin Islands, U.S. (ncl-india.org)
- The British Virgin Islands consist of 50 islands and cays, situated east of the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. (worldatlas.com)
- The US Virgin Islands lie to the west and south of their British counterparts. (worldatlas.com)
- The main islands of the British Virgin Islands are called Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke. (worldatlas.com)
- The British Virgin Islands were first inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Carib peoples. (worldatlas.com)
- Between 1872 and 1960, the British Virgin Islands were administered as part of the overseas territory known as the Leeward Islands. (worldatlas.com)
- The economy of the British Virgin Islands is highly dependent on tourism, which makes up 45% of its national income. (worldatlas.com)
- Beginning in 2014, chikungunya virus disease cases were reported among U.S. travelers returning from affected areas in the Americas and local transmission was identified in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (cdc.gov)
Local transmission of chikungunya virus1
- In late 2013, the first local transmission of chikungunya virus in the Americas was identified in Caribbean countries and territories. (cdc.gov)
Mauritius10
- Since the 1980s, the Government of Mauritius has sought to regain control over the Chagos Archipelago, which was separated from the then Crown Colony of Mauritius by the UK in 1965 to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. (wikipedia.org)
- A February 2019 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice called for the islands to be given to Mauritius. (wikipedia.org)
- On 3 November 2022, it was announced that the UK and Mauritius had decided to begin negotiations on sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory, taking into account the international legal proceedings. (wikipedia.org)
- The islands of Chagos Archipelago were charted by Vasco da Gama in the early 16th century, and then claimed in the 18th century by France as a possession of Mauritius. (wikipedia.org)
- In 1810, Mauritius was captured by the United Kingdom, and France subsequently ceded the territory in the Treaty of Paris in 1814. (wikipedia.org)
- In 1965, the United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches (Des Roches) from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). (wikipedia.org)
- A few weeks after the decision to detach the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 2066 on 16 December 1965, which stated that this detachment of part of the colonial territory of Mauritius was against customary international law as recorded earlier in the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples of 14 December 1960. (wikipedia.org)
- Largely because of the detachment of the islands, the International Court of Justice determined in 2019 that the decolonisation of Mauritius was still not lawfully completed. (wikipedia.org)
- Over the next five years, the British authorities removed the entire population of about 2,000 people, known as Chagossians (or Ilois), from Diego Garcia and two other Chagos atolls, Peros Banhos and Salomon Islands, to Mauritius. (wikipedia.org)
- In the 1960s and 70s, the people who lived on the island, known as Chagossians or Ilois, were relocated to the African island countries of Mauritius and the Seychelles . (worldatlas.com)
India1
- 3 On the island of Réunion, it was estimated that more than 30% of the 770 000 inhabitants were infected by CHIKV.2 In 2005, an epidemic of chikungunya began in India which resulted in more than 1.39 million suspected cases by 2011. (who.int)
Seychelles1
- the islands now form part of the Outer Islands district of the Seychelles. (wikipedia.org)
Pierre And Miquelon1
- The AnaCredit Regulation therefore does not apply in countries and territories of TFEU Annex II, with the exception of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Saint-Barthélemy, which are considered part of France. (europa.eu)
Chikungunya2
- A recent outbreak of chikungunya fever in the islands of the Indian Ocean has drawn attention to chikungunya virus (CHIKV, genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae) ( 4 ), first identified in the 1950s in Africa. (cdc.gov)
- At the beginning of 2005, an outbreak of chikungunya fever was observed in the southeastern islands of the Indian Ocean. (cdc.gov)
Countries and territories6
- Should countries and territories listed in Annex II of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) be considered as reporting Member States pursuant to the AnaCredit Regulation? (europa.eu)
- Furthermore, how should countries and territories that are not listed in Annex II be treated if they have a specific constitutional relationship with reporting Member States, such as France, Finland, Spain and Germany? (europa.eu)
- Annex II of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) contains a list of overseas countries and territories to which the provisions of Part Four of TFEU apply. (europa.eu)
- Countries and territories of TFEU Annex II are not Member States. (europa.eu)
- TFEU defines them as countries and territories that may enter in an association with Member States. (europa.eu)
- Furthermore, in the case of counterparties resident in a country or territory with an existing ISO 3166-1 code (including the countries and territories of TFEU Annex II) the specific two-letter code of the country (territory) is reported to AnaCredit. (europa.eu)
Antarctica1
- As its name implies, the British Antarctic Territory, or BAT, is located in Antarctica. (worldatlas.com)
Leeward Islands1
- Anguilla is the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean. (worldatlas.com)
Diego Garcia1
- The largest and most southerly island is Diego Garcia, 27 square kilometres (10 square miles), the site of a Joint Military Facility of the United Kingdom and the United States. (wikipedia.org)
Faroe Islands1
- Faroe Islands (DKK kr. (lonelyplanet.com)
Aland Islands4
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Comoros1
- Comoros representa el qamar árabe, luna, que, según algunos eruditos se relaciona con las místicas Montañas de la Luna situadas, según se dice, en algún lugar del África ecuatorial. (bvsalud.org)
Madagascar3
- Location: West of southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. (nationsonline.org)
- En 1914 se convirtieron en una colonia ligada administrativamente a Madagascar y pasaron a ser territorio francés de ultramar en 1947. (bvsalud.org)
- In 1914 they became a colony attached to Madagascar administratively and were made a French overseas territory in 1947. (bvsalud.org)
Chagos Archipelago3
- The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands - many very small - amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres (23 square miles). (wikipedia.org)
- Subsequently, the territory has consisted only of the six main island groups comprising the Chagos Archipelago. (wikipedia.org)
- The territory comprises the six atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands. (hitchwiki.org)
AFRICA3
- A recent outbreak of chikungunya fever in the islands of the Indian Ocean has drawn attention to chikungunya virus (CHIKV, genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae) ( 4 ), first identified in the 1950s in Africa. (cdc.gov)
- This mosquito was originally indigenous to Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific, and the Indian Ocean but has recently spread to Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, mainly because of transportation of dormant eggs in tires ( 10 ). (cdc.gov)
- Before 2013, the virus was found only in Africa, Asia, Europe, and lands in the Indian and Pacific oceans. (medlineplus.gov)
Chikungunya virus3
- A chikungunya virus outbreak of unprecedented magnitude is currently ongoing in Indian Ocean territories. (medscape.com)
- The unique molecular features of the analyzed Indian Ocean isolates of chikungunya virus demonstrate their high evolutionary potential and suggest possible clues for understanding the atypical magnitude and virulence of this outbreak. (medscape.com)
- Mother-to-child transmission of chikungunya virus was reported during the 2005-2006 outbreak on Réunion Island, France. (cdc.gov)