Fever, no cure, little treatment. So far no one has caught the disease called chikundunya in the United States. The sufferers have contracted it while suffering and brought it home. But Public Health authorities in the u. S. Know its just a matter of time before its here. Chikungunya. The name comes from the language of the miconda people of tanzania. It means to become distorted. It is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes, causes fever, severe longterm joint pain. Headache rash, nausea. There is no cure for the disease, which is not fatal. It cannot be transmitted through human contact. It was first seen in 1952, but only arrived in the western hemisphere in 2015 on the caribbean island of st. Maarten. And in the u. S. There were only 2,000 cases last year. But only a tiny percentage of those originated here. By the end of this program you might be thinking, why havent i heard about this . A lot . Before today . Chikungunya can bring di billtation to working people pain that c
Fever, no cure, little treatment. So far no one has caught the disease called chikundunya in the United States. The sufferers have contracted it while suffering and brought it home. But Public Health authorities in the u. S. Know its just a matter of time before its here. Chikungunya. The name comes from the language of the miconda people of tanzania. It means to become distorted. It is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes, causes fever, severe long term joint pain. Headache, rash, nausea. There is no cure for the disease, which is not fatal. It cannot be transmitted through human contact. It was first seen in 1952, but only arrived in the western hemisphere in 2015 on the caribbean island of st. Maarten. And in the u. S. There were only 2,000 cases last year. But only a tiny percentage of those originated here. By the end of this program you might be thinking, why havent i heard about this . A lot . Before today . Chikungunya can bring di billtation to working people, pain tha
Other things. Thats tonight, Stephen Colbert. Also a little later on this hour, i will tell you how you can come to an online event with me about bag man, about the new book if you are at all interested in that. I will have details on that a little later on. Im supposed to have told you about that like every night for the past four nights, and i have forgotten every single one of those four nights. But i am committed to tell you tonight. Thats why im putting this little reminder here so i at least feel extra guilty if i forget later on. All right. But we are following a number of developing stories tonight both in the world of legal and political news but also when it comes to the pandemic. And lets start there first and foremost. Just within the past hour, the covid tracking project has posted the latest numbers for our country for today, and today for the first time ever, the United States has had more than 3,000 americans die in one day from the coronavirus. In the last 24 hours, 3,
Italian mayors incandescent and people still flouting restrictions. Hoboken to bbc world news. The global number of cases has surpassed 400,000. It took 67 days for the first 100,000 to be recorded, 11 days for the second 100,000, the most days for the second 100,000, the m ost rece nt days for the second 100,000, the most recent 100,000 cases have been confirmed in the space ofjust two days. Researchers from Johns Hopkins university are mapping the spread of the virus which has averaged 169 countries across the world. They see there you see that map a very good visual illustration and you see the number of cases and also the death toll and just the hotspots that exist around the world. That tally is a really useful guide as to where coronavirus is spreading and the places where they have had the highest cases and it is listed country by country to the left of the screen. The coronavirus death toll in spain hasjumped by 514 in a single day as the situation in that country quickens. In
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