{"id":27215,"date":"2015-01-21T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T21:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=27215"},"modified":"2015-01-21T22:57:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T03:57:23","slug":"lindsay-lohan-hospitalized-after-contracting-rare-incurable-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/lindsay-lohan-hospitalized-after-contracting-rare-incurable-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Lohan Hospitalized After Contracting Rare &#038; Incurable Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 28-year-old celebrity contracted\u00a0the virus while vacationing in Bora Bora shortly before New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The rare and incurable\u00a0<strong>Chikungunya virus\u00a0<\/strong>is transmitted by mosquito bites.<\/p>\n<p>After filming her upcoming Esurance commercial in LA, she returned to London, where she was reportedly checked in to King Edward VII\u2019s Hospital after becoming so ill she could no longer walk.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Chikungunya<\/b>\u00a0is an infection caused by the Chikungunya virus.<\/p>\n<p>It features sudden onset fever usually lasting two to seven days, and <a title=\"Arthralgia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthralgia\">joint pains<\/a> typically lasting weeks or months but sometimes years.<\/p>\n<p>The mortality rate is a little less than 1 in 1000, with the elderly most likely to die.<\/p>\n<p>The virus is passed to humans by two species of mosquito.<\/p>\n<p>The strain of chikungunya spreading to the US from the Caribbean is most easily spread by <i>A. aegypti<\/i>. Concern exists that this strain of chikungunya could mutate to make the <i>A. albopictus<\/i> vector more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>If this mutation were to occur, chikungunya would be more of a public health concern to the US because the <i>A. albopictus<\/i> or Asian tiger mosquito is more widespread in the US and is more aggressive than the <i>A. aegypti<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Animal reservoirs of the virus include monkeys, birds, cattle, and rodents.<sup id=\"cite_ref-pmid23092548_9-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chikungunya#cite_note-pmid23092548-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup> This is in contrast to<a title=\"Dengue virus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dengue_virus\">dengue<\/a>, for which only humans and primates are hosts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 28-year-old celebrity contracted\u00a0the virus while vacationing in Bora Bora shortly before New Year\u2019s Day. The rare and incurable\u00a0Chikungunya virus\u00a0is transmitted by mosquito bites. After filming her upcoming Esurance commercial in LA, she returned to London, where she was reportedly checked in to King Edward VII\u2019s Hospital after becoming so ill she could no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":27216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lindsay Lohan Hospitalized After Contracting Rare &amp; Incurable Virus - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/lindsay-lohan-hospitalized-after-contracting-rare-incurable-virus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lindsay Lohan Hospitalized After Contracting Rare &amp; Incurable Virus - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 28-year-old celebrity contracted\u00a0the virus while vacationing in Bora Bora shortly before New Year\u2019s Day. 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