BANGKOK (ANN): Dr Manoon Leechawengwongs, a respiratory and critical care specialist at Bangkok’s Vichaiyut Hospital, went online to warn Bangkok residents that the chikungunya virus, spread through the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito, has mutated allowing one mosquito to be the carrier of both chikungunya and dengue viruses.
He also pointed out that in the past 30 days, his hospital has treated 13 chikungunya patients compared to none last year.
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