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

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Is There a Competition Between Dengue and Chicken Goonia?

In 1779, there was an outbreak of something called knuckle courts or knuckle joint fever in a present day Jakarta. And the description written by David Bylon does suggest chicken goonia. So it seems pretty plausible that chicken goonia, which does the same transmission cycle more or less, could have been another virus carried by these mosquitoes.

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