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What journalists should know about the threat of chikungunya 

Association of Health Care Journalists

But far fewer people are familiar with chikungunya, a tropical disease likely to increase with the continuing effects of climate change. One reason chikungunya gets so little respect is that the size of its potential health and its economic burden have been underestimated. One DALY is the loss of one year of full health.)