The Chikungunya virus has been in the news lately as individuals who took the vaccine to prevent it were hospitalized. Many ...

A new study, published recently in Nature Communications, offers the first-ever map of which parts of Chikungunya virus ...

A new study, published recently in Nature Communications, offers the first-ever map of which parts of the Chikungunya virus ...

A tiny insect called a midge spreads the disease, and the earliest known case dates back to 1955 in a forest worker near a ...

Chikungunya Virus and Prospects for a Vaccine Scott C Weaver; Jorge E Osorio; Jill A Livengood; Rubing Chen; Dan T Stinchcomb Disclosures Expert Rev Vaccines. 2012;11 (9):1087-1101.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was first isolated in Newala District of Tanzania in 1952. 1 The Asian lineage of CHIKV arrived in the Americas in 2013, but, in Brazil, the first autochthonous case occurred ...

Chikungunya is an airborne disease which spreads easily and it is a relatively rare form of viral fever caused by an alpha virus that is spread by mosquito bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito which ...

"Just a lot of mosquitoes around, we're receiving about 15-20 calls a day,” said Barry Christensen, operations manager at Thunder Pest Control. The Oklahoma City County Health Department confirmed the ...

Since Chikungunya testing is not widely available, patients who test negative for dengue are observed for several days. If symptoms persist, physicians may treat them as Chikungunya patients.

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Joint pains Chikungunya virus is a potentially life threatening viral infection found in subtropical regions of the Americas, Africa, South East Asia, India, and the Pacific. It is spread to humans by ...

The UK’s Commission on Human Medicines has temporarily restricted the use of the IXCHIQ chikungunya vaccine in people aged over 65 while officials review global reports of very rare fatal reactions.