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The Haitians call it “breaking bone” disease because the joint pain is so excruciating it feels like your bones are breaking. And now the chikungunya virus, also known as CHIKV, has come to the United States, with the first cases of the mosquito-borne illness having spread locally in Florida. There is no effective treatment. “I’ve had a broken bone before. This was more severe than a broken bone,” says Dr. Jen Halverson, who contracted the illness while traveling in Haiti. Dozens of American have come down with chikungunya (pronounced chick-en-gun-yuh) after traveling in the Caribbean this spring and summer, but now for the first time the virus is apparently spreading within the U.S. Stanley Perlman, M.D., one of the world’s top infectious disease experts, tells Newsmax Health that it was just a matter of time before the devastating tropical disease landed on our shores because the pathogen can be carried by two types of mosquitoes common in the U.S. “I expected this to happen. The d...

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FCC Political TV Ads: New Rule Allows Anyone to Track Spending Online Transparency in political TV ads just got a little easier for watchdog groups and others as a little-talked about FCC rule took effect Tuesday, requiring broadcasters to disclose online who paid for those spots. Exactly who is funding political ads has always been public information, but interested citizens used to have to physically travel to each television station to get it. Under the new rule, political ad buys will be available online from about 1,000 broadcasters around the country, Dennis Wharton, a spokesperson for the National Association of Broadcasters, told The Washington Post. "Suppose you're running a political campaign. Beginning now, you're going to be able to sit at your computer and find out where your competition has been taking out ads, when they got them for and for how much money," The Post reported. "That kind of information may have always been accessible if you wer...