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Chikungunya disease in NYC? Warming could make it happen
Virus causes severe joint pain, is spread by two mosquito species
By Wynne Parry
updated 5/9/2012 2:48:48 PM ET
NEW YORK ? The name of the disease, chikungunya, means "that which bends" in an African language, and it describes the posture of its victims, bent over by severe joint pain.
Once a sporadic problem in Africa and Asia, this viral disease has been expanding its range since 2004, even spreading within Italy. And, with some help from global warming, New York City could be next, Laura Harrington, a medical entomologist at Cornell University warned on Tuesday here at Cornell...
Chikungunya disease in NYC? Warming could make it happen
Virus causes severe joint pain, is spread by two mosquito species
By Wynne Parry
updated 5/9/2012 2:48:48 PM ET
NEW YORK ? The name of the disease, chikungunya, means "that which bends" in an African language, and it describes the posture of its victims, bent over by severe joint pain.
Once a sporadic problem in Africa and Asia, this viral disease has been expanding its range since 2004, even spreading within Italy. And, with some help from global warming, New York City could be next, Laura Harrington, a medical entomologist at Cornell University warned on Tuesday here at Cornell...