Pan American Health Organization: 436,586 chikungunya cases in the Americas...This is just the beginning.HT: Croft.
PAHO has published this week's statistics on its Chikungunya page for week 29 (click on Last Update: July 18, 2014 in the upper right-hand corner of the page).
These report are very patchy, with some countries weeks behind others. But
we now have 436,586 "suspected" cases (no one bothers to test any more), which
gives us a weekly increase of 86,006 over July 11.
The Dominican Republic has seen an increase from 193,395 to 251,880. Haiti,
going from week 26 to 27, went from 51,830 to 62,422. The true Haitian numbers
are likely over a million. Guadeloupe saw a rise from 52,000 in week 26 to
63,000 in week 28.
The US has 236 cases; no distinction between imported and locally acquired
cases.
By the end of the summer chikungunya is likely to be uncountable in the
Americas.Hmmm.....I can't even imagine Obama care dealing with something of this magnitude, once it gets hold in the U.S. wetlands.
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