A LITTLE-KNOWN mosquito-borne virus is spreading pain and death across the Indian Ocean, and could be headed for Europe and the Americas.
Chikungunya virus is normally little cause for concern, as it has not been fatal and large outbreaks are rare. That looks to be changing, as the virus has recently swept across the Indian Ocean, striking a third of the population of the French island of RĂ©union in the past three months, and killing for the first time. Meanwhile the mosquitoes that carry it are invading Europe and the Americas, and there are signs that the virus could already…
