ApocaDocs: Experts predict next epidemic will start in animals

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Posted Tue Oct 21 2008: from USA Today:


	Experts predict next epidemic will start in animals http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1224600623 ...A report by the non-profit Trust for America's Health, to be released next week, asserts that infectious diseases from the developing world are anything but "a back-burner concern." The report, "Germs Go Global: Why Emerging Infectious Diseases Are a Threat to America," cites National Intelligence Estimates that conclude outbreaks of new and resurgent infectious diseases, many of which "originate overseas," kill more than 170,000 people in the USA each year....Chikungunya may well become the next epidemic to reach the USA. Carrying an African name that roughly means "bent over," chikungunya is a mosquito-borne illness that causes severe flu-like symptoms and muscle aches that may last a lifetime.

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The ApocaDocs say:

Wasn't it chikungunya that said "The sky is falling!"?