Category: chikungunya

CDC Scientist Fights Chikungunya

investigation in Comoros in 2005 --- the beginning of the outbreaks

One of the most telling signs of the complexity surrounding chikungunya is that educating people on pronouncing the name correctly is perhaps the easiest challenge. I’m exposed to that truth more than most.  And for the record, it’s pronounced chick-un-goon-ya. As a research microbiologist for CDC’s National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases, my Read More >

Posted on by Ann Powers, Ph.D., Research Microbiologist and Chief of the Alphavirus Laboratory in CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases3 Comments
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