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<p>By Lt. Hanayo Arimoto, Lt. Jen Wright and Cmdr. Peter Obenauer, Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE), Jacksonville, Florida.<br><br><br>"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — As summer approaches, mosquitoes become a nuisance and the diseases they carry threaten public health. This summer a new disease threat is on the horizon, especially to those in the southeastern United States. Chikungunya (CHIK) may sound like a southern delicacy but in fact is a dangerous viral disease transmitted by the bite of infected Aedes albopictus or Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. “Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne disease that recently entered the Caribbean and is continuing to spread thorough out the region,” said Stephanie Moody- Geissler, Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance for the Florida Department of Health."
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<br>Subjects: Chikungunya; Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE); entomology; Florida; Navy Medicine magazine;</div>
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