Tropical Virus Moves to Italy


	Tropical Virus Moves to Italy

Fast T friend

12-24-2007 10:38 AM

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health, global warming, virus, chikungunya

Fast T friend says:

Aided by global warming and globalization, Castiglione di Cervia has the dubious distinction of playing host to the first outbreak in modern Europe of a disease that had previously been seen only in the tropics.

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