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 ...

The chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus, is the causative agent of this serious illness. To facilitate viral RNA replication, CHIKV creates distinctive organelles called spherules on the ...

Chikungunya reappeared in India in 2006 after a long gap of 20-30 years. In 2006, chikungunya virus was clinically suspected in nearly 14 million people and was laboratory-confirmed in 2,001 cases ...

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 ...

Chikungunya surge in Pakistan: What we know about the mosquito-borne virus The virus causes severe joint pain, and cases have been steadily rising in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi since May.

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 ...

Traces of chikungunya virus found in cerebrospinal fluid of a six-month-old infant in Pune, causing neurological complications. Medical experts concerned about severe infections in children.