Mosquito-borne virus may lead to severe brain infection

(American Academy of Neurology) The mosquito-borne virus chikungunya may lead to severe brain infection and even death in infants and people over 65, according to a new study that reviewed a chikungunya outbreak on Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar in 2005-2006. The study is published in the Nov. 25, 2015, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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