Forget about swine flu, here is something new!

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The United States and Europe face a new health threat from a mosquito-borne disease far more unpleasant than the West Nile virus that swept into North America a decade ago, a U.S. expert said on Friday. Chikungunya virus has spread beyond Africa since 2005, causing outbreaks and scores of fatalities in India and the French island of Reunion. It also has been detected in Italy, where it has begun to spread locally, as well as France.
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"The disease can be fatal. It's a serious disease," Diaz added. "There is no vaccine."
Chikungunya infection causes fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain, rash and joint pain. Symptoms can last a few weeks, though some suffers have reported incapacitating joint pain or arthritis lasting months.
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Mosquito-borne African virus a new threat to West - Yahoo! News
 


Precisely why I keep my system charged with as much beer, wine, tequila and scotch as possible. No fucking way that any piss ant virus from some 3rd world African country is going to survive swimming around in that shit.
 
I heard about this a few years ago... I'm pretty sure there's a working vaccine for it.

EDIT: Found this on wikipedia - "A Phase II vaccine trial, sponsored by the US Government and published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2000, used a live, attenuated virus, developing viral resistance in 98% of those tested after 28 days and 85% still showed resistance after one year."
 
It's the end of days! Plagues and government/MLB satellites! Time to stock up on tinfoil, food, water, and taped episodes of M*A*S*H
 
As far as i know, no one dies because of the disease. It's just that you gonna suffer alot
 
kamesh said:
As far as i know, no one dies because of the disease. It's just that you gonna suffer alot
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Oh that's encouraging.

What happens with this unga-bunga virus mixes with the swine and then mutates? You shit blood for a year?
 
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