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Springtime Infectious Diseases: From Spring Fever to Lyme Disease

Gideon

Available: 10.1016/s1473-3099(09)70069-6 (9) “ Lyme disease: Transmission “, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD), 2020. 360-366, 2011. Online] (10) S. Monaghan, and P.

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What journalists should know about the threat of chikungunya 

Association of Health Care Journalists

The numbers though modest compared to dengue and malaria are still striking. There were 18.7 million chikungunya cases in 110 countries during that decade, which resulted in 1.95 million DALYs, $2.8 billion in direct costs and $47.1 billion indirect costs.