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CDC warns travelers of uncurable mosquito-borne virus

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 12, 2025
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Planning a trip to Cuba, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or southern China? The CDC would like a word. The agency has issued Level 2 travel advisories — “practice enhanced precautions” — for all four destinations due to outbreaks of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus with no treatment and a name that sounds like it was invent…

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