If you’re traveling to the Caribbean anytime soon, bring the DEET. Chikungunya, a virulent mosquito-borne illness with no known cure is sweeping the islands.
The disease is similar to dengue and causes extreme muscle pain that can last months or even years; it has been fatal in rare cases.
Historically, chikungunya (pronounced chik-en-GUN-ya), which was first discovered in Tanzania in 1952, has been more prevalent in Africa and Asia. Saint Martin was the first location in the Western Hemisphere to report cases of the disease in December 2013. In recent months it has spread across the region, with over 10,000 cases on islands like Guadeloupe and Martinique. Even tony Saint Bart’s hasn’t been spared. There have also been isolated cases as far away as Florida and Venezuela.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 800,000 people have been afflicted in the Caribbean and surrounding countries — and over 1,500 U.S. citizens contracted chikungunya on vacation in the region and brought it back to the U.S.
These are really the end times, strange diseases are just springing up first it was Aids, then Ebola, now it's Chikungunya and it's borne by mosquitos. God help us.
God really help us end times from this to that
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