Physicians in the U-S are learning more about the exotic-sounding illness that originated in the Caribbean called chikungunya. Chief of the Infectious Disease Division at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Dr. Mark Rupp says like West Nile it is spread my mosquitoes but there are a few differences.
Rupp says most of the cases in the U-S are people who traveled to the Caribbean and were infected there
Rupp says like West Nile, chikungunya is spread by mosquitoes but it isn’t spread by other animals.
Rupp says there is no cure and symptoms can last for months. He says in Haiti it is called “bone breaking disease” because it impacts joints and it feels like you have broken bones.
