As Earth Warms Up, Tropical Virus Moves to Italy
December 23rd, 2007 | by jeff | | Post to NewsCloud »
After a month of investigation, Italian public health officials discovered that the people of Castiglione di Cervia were, in fact, suffering from a tropical disease, chikungunya, a relative of dengue fever normally found in the Indian Ocean region. But the immigrants spreading the disease were not humans but insects: tiger mosquitoes, who can thrive in a warming Europe.
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