2007Aug9: More than a 100 people in Castiglione Di Cervia, Italy, suffer high fever, exhaustion and bone pain. At first the cause of the illnesses were unknown. Townspeople blamed pollution in the river, the government, and recent immigrants. In September Italian public health officials announce that the town was affected by Chikungunya, a tropical disease, normally found in the Indian Ocean region. The disease was carried by the tiger mosquito- range has expanded north in the last three years. “They were treating the mosquitos like an annoyance. They knew that mosquitos could spread tropical diseases, but they had peace of mind because they knew this didn’t happen in Italy,” said Dr. Rafaella Angelini, director of the public health department in the regional capital of Ravenna (IHT).
Reference: International Herald Tribune. 2007. http://iht.com/articles/2007/12/21/healthscience/virus.php
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