Mosquito-borne chikungunya virus spreads in the Caribbean

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Mosquito-borne chikungunya virus spreads in the Caribbean

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mosquito-borne-chikungunya-virus-spreads-caribbean-211046577.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/udFxR0vhPEY5WuyLYLo4Jg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-05-23T211046Z_1_LYNXMPEA4M0Q1_RTROPTP_2_USA-HAITI-CHIKUNGUNYA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A worker from a private company fumigates a property for mosquitoes in Port-au-Prince" align="left" title="A worker from a private company fumigates a property for mosquitoes in Port-au-Prince" border="0" /></a>By Amelie Baron and Ezra Fieser PORT-AU-PRINCE/SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A painful mosquito-borne virus spreading quickly through the Caribbean is causing alarm in Haiti and neighboring Dominican Republic, where health officials are scrambling to respond to a surge of new patients. Chikungunya, a virus more commonly found in Africa and Asia and transmitted by the same daytime-biting aedes aegypti mosquito that causes the more deadly dengue fever, was first detected in the eastern Caribbean five months ago. &quot;These mosquitoes know no borders,&quot; said Phyllis Kozarsky, a physician with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The Pan-American Health Organization reports more than 55,000 suspected and confirmed cases in the Caribbean.</p><br clear="all"/>

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