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Painful chikungunya virus spreading rapidly in Caribbean | Fox News - 0 views

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  • Hospitals and clinics throughout the Caribbean are seeing thousands of people with the same symptoms, victims of a virus with a long and unfamiliar name that has been spread rapidly by mosquitoes across the islands after the first locally transmitted case was confirmed in December.
  • "It is terrible, I have never in my life gotten such an illness," said Maria Norde, a 66-year-old woman confined to bed at her home on the lush eastern Caribbean island of Dominica. "All my joints are in pain."
  • Outbreaks of the virus have long made people miserable in Africa and Asia.
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  • One thing is certain: The virus has found fertile ground in the Caribbean, where it is rapidly spreading. The Pan American Health Organization reports more than 55,000 suspected and confirmed cases since December throughout the islands.
  • Chikungunya was identified in Africa in 1953 and is found throughout the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere.
  • gabopro1402 on 07 Nov 14
     
    Hospitals and clinics throughout the Caribbean are seeing thousands of people with the same symptoms, victims of a virus with a long and unfamiliar name that has been spread rapidly by mosquitoes across the islands after the first locally transmitted case was confirmed in December. The Caribbean suffering a lot since december lets help them
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History of Chikungunya - 0 views

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  • Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) likely originated in Central/East Africa, where the virus has been found to circulate in a sylvatic cycle between forest-dwelling mosquitoes and nonhuman primates
  • outbreaks have spread the disease to other parts of the world. Numerous chikungunya re-emergences have been documented in Africa, Asia (India), and Europe, with irregular intervals of 2–20 years between outbreaks.
  • gabopro1402 on 24 Oct 14
     
    chikungunya virus was detected in 1952 in African was found on the Makonde Plateau. This is a border area between Mozambique and Tanzania
  • gabopro1402 on 06 Nov 14
     
    outbreaks have spread the disease to other parts of the world. Numerous chikungunya re-emergences have been documented in Africa, Asia (India), and Europe, with irregular intervals of 2-20 years between outbreaks.
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