Word: chikungunya
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...Number of people in India infected with chikungunya fever?a mosquito-borne illness similar to dengue fever?since its re-emergence there in 2005. The disease reached Italy last summer, and recently Singapore has reported outbreaks...
...viruses have been divided into distinct families labeled "A" and "B"; they crop up around the world in a variety of guises, e.g., Japanese "B" in eastern Asia; Murray Valley Fever in Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even fewer represent great danger to human life. The virulent Japanese "B" variety has been spread across Asia by migrating herons, sometimes affects thousands in a summer. Some 2,800 died in Japan and Korea last...
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