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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first vaccine against chikungunya virus, a disease that is primarily transmitted to people through infected mosquito bites. The ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus typically causes mild symptoms that mimic the common cold. Like many respiratory diseases, it’s found in sputum, mucus and ...

Chikungunya is a disease transmitted to humans by mosquitoes in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, with sporadic cases reported in other locations. Its symptoms often resemble those of dengue and ...

This study has the following hypotheses: the spatial distribution of the probable cases of dengue fever, chikungunya fever and zika virus infections occurs heterogeneously in Maranhao, and there is a ...

Pune: The chikungunya surge in the city and surrounding areas has been caused by the Indian Ocean lineage of the virus, a known culprit that has triggered large outbreaks in the past, scientists ...

As part of the team in 2017 that mapped the structure of a human antibody that could potently block the Zika virus, as well as the recipient of this major grant from NIAIAD, Kuhn is one of the ...

Key Points 1. Chikungunya fever, first reported in East Africa, now affects over 110 countries globally. Without a cure, emphasis on prevention is crucial to combat the spread of this debilitating and ...

Bioassay-guided purification of an EtOAc extract of the whole plant of Euphorbia amygdaloides ssp. semiperfoliata using a chikungunya virus-cell-based assay led to the isolation of six new (1–4, 9, ...