The authors saw a greater reduction and more extended fluctuations in sleep duration among people reporting long COVID with sleep problems.

Though the immunopathological mechanisms through which autoimmune disorders may emerge after a CHIKV infection are not completely understood 5, it is believed that inflammatory biomarkers such as ...

Discover Black Nose Disease, an alarming new symptom of Chikungunya. Learn about its causes, health risks, and the importance of early diagnosis and treatment in managing this emerging health threat.

ABSTRACT Background: Chikungunya fever is an emerging global infection transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes that manifests as an acute febrile illness with joint pain and can lead to chronic arthritis. The ...

The findings indicated that the invasion of the chikungunya virus occurs through two mechanisms: first, the virus infects CD14+ and CD16+ monocytes and, in the presence of high levels of CCL-2 it ...

The chikungunya virus, transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes and responsible for more than 900 deaths in Brazil since it arrived around ten years ago, is capable of ...

More than a quarter million cases of chikungunya virus have surfaced in South America this year. The virus can cause debilitating joint pain. Now the U.S. FDA has approved a new vaccine.

In the realm of viral infections, the Chikungunya virus has been a longstanding concern due to its ability to cause debilitating symptoms and spread rapidly. However, recent groundbreaking research ...

Cells infected with the chikungunya virus project tendrils outwards as a way of infecting neighboring cells. The above image depicts such an infection in mouse embryo cells.

Chikungunya vaccine candidate met all the co-primary endpoints of the Phase 3 study and was shown to be highly immunogenic in the majority of subjects 22 days post a single vaccination. A fast and ...