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CDC warns travelers of mosquito nightmare virus, Newsom's latest identity crisis, and the truth about Oliver Sacks's beloved brain stories

Mark Frauenfelder
Dec 12, 2025
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Happy Thursday! Here’s today’s stories: The CDC is telling travelers to pack extra bug spray for trips to Cuba and Bangladesh, where a mosquito-borne virus called chikungunya is spreading—and it sounds exactly as unpleasant as its unpronounceable name suggests. California’s Gavin Newsom has lurched left again after his brief MAGA…

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