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Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?)

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Viruses of the Chicken Goonio

AD's albopictus is a mosquito species that previous to this had not really been implicated as a major vector. It was like 80s egypti for the urban human to human cycle, and then other 80s species for the enzymatic cycle. But now, suddenly, there's this new al bopictus species in play. And the result of that was that chicken goonio exploded in 2004 from eastern Kenya into islands in the Indian Ocean.

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