New, Untreatable Chikungunya Virus In Caribbean Affects 4,600, Worries Tourism Officials - 1 views
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“It has not been here before, so people are susceptible, there is no resistance and we have had a lot of the mosquitoes that transmit it,”
“One of the things that has become starkly clear to me in my visit is that there’s no grey area here between controlling the disease on the one hand and widespread disaster on the other. We’re at an absolute tipping point where either the disease is contained to the low tens of thousands, or it becomes an epidemic of a very serious kind.”
