Lindsay Lohan has announced that she has been infected with the painful Chikungunya virus. Lindsay has been vacationing in the South Pacific, which is one of the regions that have been affected by the Chikungunya virus. Experts say the Chikungunya virus does indeed have the potential to spread much further in the U.S., particularly in states like Florida that have a similar climate to the Caribbean and share a close proximity to the region. Places that Lindsay often finds herself. Scott C. Weaver, director of the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity at UTMB, cautioned that Chikungunya virus can terrorize any areas where the aedes aegypti mosquito is found and the local population does not have a natural immunity built up over time. “There are going to be some very large populations at risk down there, much larger than the Caribbean.”