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*Chikungunya is not a nationally notifiable disease.

†Countries or territories visited include Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Indonesia, Martinique, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten.

‡Three additional cases were identified in residents of other countries visiting the United States.

http://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/geo/americas.html

The town of Crisfield was impacted heavily by Superstorm Sandy.  Going into its second year after Sandy's landfall, only one third of the houses impacted in Crisfield (the most heavily impacted town on the Eastern Shore) have been restored.  Infrastructure remains fragile and the economy, although temporarily improved to some degree by modest recovery funds, continues in a fragile state under long-term decline.  Overall, Crisfield's population continues in a long-term decline after being the second most prosperous city in Maryland during the late 1800s and early 1900s, before its fisheries largely collapsed with the decline in the Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem.  

In recent months an environmental threat has descended upon our state that is so huge -- so negatively transformative -- that it requires an unprecedented response. Which is why we're crisscrossing Maryland on a nine-stop tour -- from the mountains to the sea, November 5th to December 3rd -- to sound the alarm. Dominion Resources is proposing a massive industrial plan to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) out of tiny Cove Point, Maryland. The plan would radically expand violent “fracking” for gas across our region. It could trigger earthquakes, sea-level rise, ozone pollution, and, potentially, massive “fireball” explosions along the Chesapeake Bay. And it's one of the worst things our state could do for global warming.

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