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Title: World Cup, La Reunion & chikungunya
Post by: Palomides on February 27, 2006, 11:48:36 am

If anyone is planning a trip to the island paradise of Reunion for the Bouldering World Cup, then you might want to get some serious mosquito repellant.

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A crippling disease in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has affected 157,000 people, one in five of the population, in the past year, health officials say.

Chikungunya, Swahili for "that which bends up", causes high fever and severe pain but was not thought to be fatal.

However, the health minister of France, which rules the island, said this week 77 deaths may have been caused "directly or indirectly".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4749028.stm