As mosquito-borne illnesses go, they call Dengue fever bonebreak fever, but researcher Scott Weaver notes, “Chikungunya is more painful and debilitating.” The virus circulates for mere days in the body, but the pain it can cause can go on for weeks, months, sometimes years. Florida is now home to 10 people infected with the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far, every one of them was bitten during visits out of the country. But health officials are certain that luck won’t last. “Each time a person pops off an airplane from the Caribbean, the risk of local transmission grows. It takes just one mosquito bite to get the cycle going,” said Weaver, who just returned from a reconnaissance of sorts on mosquitoes for UTMB.