chikungunya

The British firm that developed the strain of mosquito says it has already tested the insect in tropical countries and found it can reduce populations of disease-carrying mosquitoes by 90 percent.

While some Americans worried that Ebola would spread around the U.S., a new mosquito-borne virus flew right in. It sickened more than 2,000 Americans and nearly a million people across the Caribbean.

Sound Medicine’s Eric Metcalf shares the statistics of chikungunya, a disease only preventable by avoiding mosquito bites.