[color=#990000][/color]Chikungunya: Another Mosquito situation








Tweets from the official account of the World Health Organization (WHO) have been flooding my Twitter timeline. A particular topic caught my interest. Tweets about a disease called 'Chikungunya' were difficult to ignore. Maybe it's the name, quite funny, chikungunya , couldn't help laughing. Sounds like something from Naruto. When I saw a tweet that said it was transmitted by mosquito bites, I got even more interested. Mosquito is a vector we Africans, Nigerians know very well, in fact, Chief Amos Quito na our padi. Who never get malaria before? Walk into any hospital and half the patients are being treated for malaria, another mosquito transmitted pathology.

So curiosity got the better of me, and I did a little research on this disease. With reliable information (avoid hoaxes, trust only reliable sources) sourced from the WHO and the CDC USA, I was able to come up with an article on this interesting disease.

Read full article here http://medigist..com/2013/12/chikungunya.html

The disease sounds Tanzanian.

slap1: The disease sounds Tanzanian.

it's actually coined from around that region.