Chikungunya virus sweeping Caribbean islands

By News Staff

Posted May 7, 2014 6:50 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

A nasty mosquito-borne illness is sweeping the Caribbean. The WHO says there are 4,000 confirmed cases and another 31,000 suspected cases and that the Chikungunya virus has killed six people.

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