http://pagesix.com/2014/12/30/lindsay-lohan-diagnosed-wtih-mosquito-transmitted-virus/?_ga=1.139026678.414373393.1410532265

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"The troubled actress, 28, was diagnosed with the Chikungunya virus during her French Polynesian holiday. According to the World Health Organization, Chikungunya is transmitted through mosquito bites and causes fever, severe joint pain among other unpleasant symptoms."

12/30/2014 10:31:43 AM

also herpes

12/30/2014 10:48:12 AM

Ha. They make it sound like it is HIV or something. Chikungunya is basically like the flu with joint pain. You don't want to get it but it is not rare nor fatal and the symptoms are generally short lived. Was just in Jamaica and they are having some problems with it there.

12/30/2014 1:12:54 PM

Hmm, my give-o-fuck meter must be broke, because it's reading in the negative!

12/30/2014 1:21:08 PM

I bet she had the shits

12/30/2014 1:21:09 PM

Quote :

"Observations during recent epidemics have suggested chikungunya may cause long-term symptoms following acute infection. During the La Reunion outbreak in 2006, more than 50% of subjects over the age of 45 reported long-term musculoskeletal pain[16] with up to 60% of people reporting prolonged painful joints three years following initial infection.[4] A study of imported cases in France reported that 59% of people still suffered from arthralgia two years after acute infection.[17] Following a local epidemic of chikungunya in Italy, 66% of people reported muscle pains, joint pains, or asthenia at one year after acute infection.[18] Long-term symptoms are not an entirely new observation; long-term arthritis was observed following an outbreak in 1979.[19] Common predictors of prolonged symptoms are increased age and prior rheumatological disease.[16][4][18][20] The cause of these chronic symptoms is currently not fully known. Markers of autoimmune or rheumatoid disease have not been found in people reporting chronic symptoms.[4][21] However, some evidence from humans and animal models suggests chikungunya may be able to establish chronic infections within the host. Viral antigen was detected in a muscle biopsy of a people suffering a recurrent episode of disease three months after initial onset.[22] Additionally, viral antigen and RNA were found in synovial macrophages of a person during a relapse of musculoskeletal disease 18 months after initial infection.[23] Several animal models have also suggested chikungunya virus may establish persistent infections. In a mouse model, viral RNA was detected specifically in joint-associated tissue for at least 16 weeks after inoculation, and was associated with chronic synovitis.[24] Similarly, another study reported detection of a viral reporter gene in joint tissue of mice for weeks after inoculation.[25] In a nonhuman primate model, chikungunya virus was found to persist in the spleen for at least six weeks.[26] "

12/30/2014 2:54:40 PM

OWWWWW MY FIBROMYALGIA

12/30/2014 3:25:17 PM

LUPUS! IS IT LUPUS?

12/30/2014 9:23:31 PM

Quote :

"more than 50% of subjects over the age of 45 reported long-term musculoskeletal pain[16] with up to 60% of people reporting prolonged painful joints three years following initial infection."

Photo of her throwing scripts for oxy up in the air instead of confetti tomorrow at midnight in 5...4...3...2...1...

12/30/2014 10:33:54 PM

chronic dumbitchitis

12/31/2014 9:06:34 AM

It's never Lupus

12/31/2014 9:13:50 AM

honestly

who saw the title and didn't think of herpes

12/31/2014 6:49:35 PM

wtf

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3049872/Lindsay-Lohan-embarrasses-Instagram-sharing-mistranslated-Arabic-quote-meant-inspire-followers.html

4/22/2015 2:23:20 AM