A Long Island resident has a locally acquired case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, New York state officials confirmed Tuesday.
It’s the first such case in state history and the first in the U.S. and its territories since 2019, the New York State Department of Health said.
All previous chikungunya cases in New York state, including three other cases this year, were the result of international travel to places with outbreaks of the virus…