Posted on 10/15/2025 4:15:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The New York State Department of Health has confirmed a case of locally acquired chikungunya on Long Island, marking the first case of the virus reported to be locally acquired in New York and the first locally acquired case to be reported in the United States since 2019.
Laboratory testing at the department’s Wadsworth Center confirmed the case in Nassau County on Long Island, according to health officials.
“An investigation suggests that the individual likely contracted the virus following a bite from an infected mosquito,” officials said. “While the case is classified as locally acquired based on current information, the precise source of exposure is not known.”
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Chickenwhat?!
Notice they didn’t say WHERE the infected mosquito was when the illegal was bitten - Guatemala? Nicaragua? Guyana?
And YES. ILLEGAL.
I have seen the kids on the international flights coming into America with unbroken chicken pox bumps and no one said a damn word.
Cool.
Do we need arrows pasted on the floors of grocery stores and shots and masks and stuff?
It sounds like an exclamation, something one would yell out after stubbing your toe in the dark.
“Who in the Chikungunya left this 50lb dumbbell in the bedroom hallway!!!??”
“Unnnngh, my chikungunya got crushed!”
a viral disease resembling dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes and endemic in East Africa and parts of Asia.
Winter is coming and that will settle the mosquitoes down.
A new exotic VD brought to us by Joe Biden. Look out for green chancres where your mustache used to be.
Let me guess. Ground zero is a posh Uganda compound popular with New York mayoral candidates.
Hate it when that happens!
And who’s the foreigner that brought it here?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5330729/
https://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/data-maps/chikungunya-us.html
Grab your socks, it’s monkey pox!
This is running rampant in China so probably came from there.
"Locally acquired" seems to imply that it was here. Of course, a local mosquito had to get the virus from someone, and that someone else may have brought it with them, so the mosquito could re-infect someone else on a subsequent feeding.
And central America. One of my children acquired it while a missionary.
Oh, noes! \o/
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