Daily Stormer
January 3, 2015
When people talk about the benefits of diversity, they usually talk about the rape, drug-dealing, gang violence, unique cultural vibrancy, expense to the taxpayer, and ethnic food. And sure, everyone loves that the colorfuls bless us with these things, but people often forget that the vibrants also bless us with various colorful types of infectious disease.
The chikungunya virus (pronounced “chicken-goon-ya”) causes severe joint and muscle pains that is so bad sufferers can’t even stand up after contracting the sickness.
The mosquito-borne virus was once relegated only to Asia and Africa, but since last year it made its way to to several islands in the Caribbean, then westward into South and Central America and into Florida and the region of the USA around the Gulf of Mexico.
The WHO says the disease was first identified in southern Tanzania in 1952. The name “chikungunya” is derived from a word in the Kimakonde language meaning “to become contorted.” It describes the stooped appearance of sufferers wracked with joint pain. It is rarely fatal but is an extremely painful and fast developing disease.
The CDC reports that there is no vaccine to prevent or medicine to treat chikungunya. Once you get it, it just has to run its course.