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The chikungunya virus was locally acquired in New York for the first time.

China has its largest chikungunya outbreak since 2008, affecting global infection patterns.

Symptoms include fever, joint pain and headaches, and there's no treatment available.

New York health officials said the first locally acquired case of chikungunya has been detected in a person from Long Island.

The New York Times reported that chikungunya cases have been surging in China, which is having its largest outbreak since a case was first found there in 2008.

Since 2013, the virus has become endemic in much of the Caribbean and Central and South America, but the Times said the U.S. has “largely been spared. Though a few thousand U.S. residents have been infected with chikungunya through travel, the

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