[KeepingItReal]

After a long journey from Africa, a new tropical disease sets up shop in Florida. Only confirmed in southern Florida presently but awareness of it presence is encouraged.

It can't kill you, or make you bleed from the eyes and ears the way the horrible Ebola virus that’s been ravaging West Africa can.

But the chikungunya virus can cause such extreme joint pain that you can't even sit up for weeks.

There’s no cure or vaccine. And now the disease has established a beachhead in the United States.

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After a long journey from Africa, a new tropical disease sets up shop in Florida | Public Radio International

[kittygilchrist]

Aware. Thanks...saw this on cable.