New tropical virus arriving from Latin America

"While all eyes are on the Ebola outbreak of West Africa, the U.S. is facing a lesser-known but equally viral outbreak of a different kind.

'The arrival of chikungunya virus, first in the tropical Americas and now in the United States, underscores the risks posed by this and other exotic pathogens,' Roger Nasci, Ph.D., chief of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Arboviral Diseases Branch, said in  a press statement. 'It is not known what course chikungunya will take now in the United States.' "

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