Tropical diseases now in Europe, who's next?

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When people in small town in Italy suddenly started running high fevers, becoming very weak, and experiencing severe joint pain - they started blaming everyone and everything except for the real culprit. Global Warming! That's right. Scientists have been predicting that tropical diseases would start moving into areas that had previously been too cold. And that is what happenened in Italy. "Tiger mosquitoes" had migrated north and were spreading a tropical disease to a country that had no experience with it. Doctors and patients had no idea what they were dealing with and it took months to get it completely figured out. The victims were suffering from a tropical disease, chikungunya, a relative of dengue fever normally found in the Indian Ocean region. Here is a link to the full story - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/world/europe/23virus.html?em&ex=1198558800&en=cabee746d63a481d&ei=5087%0A The question now is which disease and which country will have a similar problem next time. Doctors need to brush up on the tropical diseases that were mentioned many years ago in medical school; because no one knows who will be the first to encounter the next mini-epidemic. Many of these diseases already have treatments and even cures IF they are diagnosed quickly. So, who do you think will be the next "lucky" country to experience a medical side effect of global warming?