It causes excruciating pain, fever, no cure, little treatment. So far no one has caught the disease called chikundunya in the United States. The sufferers have contracted it while suffering and brought it home. But Public Health authorities in the u. S. Know its just a matter of time before its here. Chikungunya. The name comes from the language of the miconda people of tanzania. It means to become distorted. It is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes, causes fever, severe long term joint pain. Headache, rash, nausea. There is no cure for the disease, which is not fatal. It cannot be transmitted through human contact. It was first seen in 1952, but only arrived in the western hemisphere in 2015 on the caribbean island of st. Maarten. And in the u. S. There were only 2,000 cases last year. But only a tiny percentage of those originated here. By the end of this program you might be thinking, why havent i heard about this . A lot . Before today . Chikungunya can bring di billtatio
Fever, no cure, little treatment. So far no one has caught the disease called chikundunya in the United States. The sufferers have contracted it while suffering and brought it home. But Public Health authorities in the u. S. Know its just a matter of time before its here. Chikungunya. The name comes from the language of the miconda people of tanzania. It means to become distorted. It is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes, causes fever, severe longterm joint pain. Headache rash, nausea. There is no cure for the disease, which is not fatal. It cannot be transmitted through human contact. It was first seen in 1952, but only arrived in the western hemisphere in 2015 on the caribbean island of st. Maarten. And in the u. S. There were only 2,000 cases last year. But only a tiny percentage of those originated here. By the end of this program you might be thinking, why havent i heard about this . A lot . Before today . Chikungunya can bring di billtation to working people pain that c
Fever, no cure, little treatment. So far no one has caught the disease called chikundunya in the United States. The sufferers have contracted it while suffering and brought it home. But Public Health authorities in the u. S. Know its just a matter of time before its here. Chikungunya. The name comes from the language of the miconda people of tanzania. It means to become distorted. It is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes, causes fever, severe long term joint pain. Headache, rash, nausea. There is no cure for the disease, which is not fatal. It cannot be transmitted through human contact. It was first seen in 1952, but only arrived in the western hemisphere in 2015 on the caribbean island of st. Maarten. And in the u. S. There were only 2,000 cases last year. But only a tiny percentage of those originated here. By the end of this program you might be thinking, why havent i heard about this . A lot . Before today . Chikungunya can bring di billtation to working people, pain tha
We will post the program on our web site within 24 hours for our future reference and, of course, our internet viewers are always welcome to email us with questions or comments, simply writing those to speaker heritage. Org. Our guest today, dr. Larry schweikart, is a native of arizona. He earned his bachelor and masters degree at Arizona State university and received his doctorate from the university of california santa barbara. Throughout his high school and college, however, he spent most of his time playing drums in a vary of variety of rock bands. He was part of several groups, one of which opened for steppen wolf among other performers for those old enough to remember them. His first film, rocking the wall, began airing on pbs this week and will continue throughout this year. Dr. Schweikart serves on the faculty at the university of dayton where he has taught business, economic history as well as military history. He is the author of more than a dozen books including, first, a pa
The iranians to allow a few americans, staff people, to staff the intersections in a question of engagement. There is a sub question, that says what happened in 2008 with the Bush Administration . Why didnt they ask them . This is a question about more context, but also stepping the intersection in terror on with americans. I take my advice from Yitzhak Rabin when he was Prime Minister, when he was explaining that in the early 1990s why arafats shake her hands on the lawn of the white house. As a former diplomat, and i teach diplomacy, i firmly believe we have to be talking to our adversaries and enemies, that the worst thing you can do from your own perspective, from your own national interest, is to shut yourself off. Ispite we agree the regime odious, we have to have a conversation with them, because and ia powerful regime, think the idea that the united establish iran would a consistent channel for our national interests, we do not do them a ferriter, we do ourselves a favor by hav