{
  "id": 9794775,
  "title": "Chikungunya likely entered Réunion Island once then spread through human movement, study suggests",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/chikungunya-likely-entered-reunion-island-once-then-spread-through",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-25T17:00:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-chikungunya-runion-island-human-movement.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Between August 2024 and June 2025, Réunion Island experienced a massive chikungunya epidemic, with more than 54,000 confirmed cases and 43 deaths. It was the island's second major chikungunya virus outbreak, after the 2005–2006 epidemic, which affected about a third of the island's population.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}