Chikungunya Strikes Haiti--May 2014

Cite Soleil--Photo by John Carroll

Based on the patients I have examined in Port-au-Prince today and listening to the Haitian doctors I work with, I think Chikungunya virus will strike Haiti hard. I am no public health expert but I think that this is the beginning of another epidemic by a nasty pathogen.

This virus is carried by the same mosquito that spreads dengue. We will all learn about this virus once it hits the US.

More later.

John A. Carroll, MD
www.haitianhearts.org