Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?)

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Somehow it’s taken us until the penultimate episode to cover this season’s first mosquito-borne virus. But we assure you, this episode is well-worth the wait. Although Chikungunya virus is often lumped in with dengue or Zika, the unique characteristics that distinguish Chikungunya virus from these other arboviruses are just as important to note as the similarities among them. In this episode, we explore these differences and similarities in the biology of Chikungunya virus before reassessing what we thought we knew about the history of this disease, a history that is presently under revision. Finally, we wrap up the episode as we always do, by taking stock of where we stand with Chikungunya virus today. Tune in for a good deal of dengue compare/contrast, a whodunnit (or whichdiseaseisit) in the history of these two diseases, and a frustrating attempt to gather present-day case numbers.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Bridger Winegur and I host I said no gifts on exactly right.
0:04.2	Each week I invite my favorite people in comedy over for conversation and I tell them no
0:08.2	gifts, but every time they bring me a gift and then we have to talk about the gift.
0:12.6	It's infuriating.
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0:20.1	It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.
0:24.4	For many, it's their biggest fear.
0:26.4	I'm Marissa Jones, host of The Vanished.
0:28.9	A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons cases in an effort
0:34.2	to uncover the truth.
0:35.7	Follow The Vanished on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:42.0	Towards the end of September 1827, a disease of a very singular character suddenly made
0:47.4	its appearance in the island of St. Thomas and attacked almost every individual in the
0:51.9	town, which contains a population of about 12,000 souls.
0:56.4	The disease appeared so suddenly and spread with such rapidity and the suffering attending
1:01.5	it was so great that at first it caused universal alarm and was considered a sort of plague that
1:06.8	would probably ravage the whole country.
1:09.6	It was soon, however, discovered that although a very painful, it was by no means a dangerous
1:15.3	disease, and that if the attack was rapid, the recovery was no less speedy.
1:20.7	This at least was the general belief until longer experience showed the troublesome nature
1:25.3	of the secondary pains that constitute the third stage of the disorder.
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