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No Cure for the New Mosquito-Borne Disease, Chikungunya

This new crippling mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya has affected about 50 000 people on France's Indian Ocean island of Reunion. ...Read More

Posted on : Friday, February 3, 2006 12:00 AM
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Infact most virus fevers have no specific cure.We give supportive and symptomatic treatment.We give antibiotic cover to prevent secondary bacterial infection.Offcourse accyclovir has been succesfully used in some viral fevrs like chicken pox with success.
Replied on Friday, June 23, 2006 12:00 AM

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In India authorities have acknowledged that serious secondary complications arise after chikungunya. Especially renal failure have in patients have caused deaths.
Replied on Sunday, September 2, 2007 12:00 AM

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Thank God I found this article. I ws just about to move to Costa Rica and I already have Lyme Disease from hiking in northern California. I don't need this too.
Replied on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:00 AM
 




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