Mauritius

Sheila Moloo reports from Mauritius Island:
Something terrible was happening in Mauritius. Since last year a terrible infection known as "Chikungunya" fever caused by mosquito bites was affecting thousands of people in Reunion Island, which forms part of the Mascareignes Islands in the Indian Ocean. Being in the neighbourhood, "Chikungunya" did not spare people of Mauritius where about five to eight thousand people were infected by this disease.