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Mamma Mia!
Italian village first host to outbreak of spreading tropical disease |
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27 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:19 AM on 27 Dec 2007 Congratulations to Castiglione di Cervia, Italy, the first place in modern Europe to feel one dismal effect of a warming world: a tropical disease out of its natural habitat. This summer, more than 100 people in the village of 2,000 came down with fever, exhaustion, and terrible bone pain later found to be caused by chikungunya, a disease spread by warm-climate-lovin' tiger mosquitoe ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health, Italy, news (all these topics) |
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