If youre thinking about taking a trip to the Caribbean this summer, watch out for mosquitoes. The first Oklahoma case of Chikungunya, a mosquito-transmitted disease thats recently expanded rapidly across islands in the Caribbean, has been confirmed in a Tulsa resident who recently traveled to Haiti. Unlike West Nile virus infection, chikungunya can be transmitted from a sick person to a healthy person by the bite of an infected mosquito.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:08:30 +0000
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