Chikungunya (pronounced chik-un-GUNH-ya) first emerged last year on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. As I reported in February, just a few months after the disease was first detected the number of cases had already climbed to more than 1,000 and had hop-scotched across several of the Caribbean islands. Since then, the disease has crept even closer to the continental U.S. with one confirmed case in the U.S. Virgin Islands and 14 cases in Haiti. There are now 4,576 confirmed cases of the disease in the Western Hemisphere, according to the Pan American Health Organization, and more than 165,000 suspected cases . . . .
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:01:21 +0000
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