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 ...

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.

FREMONT, CA / ACCESS Newswire / June 19, 2025 / CliniOps, Inc., a leading provider of digital technology solutions for clinical trials, announced today that Valneva SE (Nasdaq: VALN; Euronext Paris: ...

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.

Rapid and Real-time Assays for Detection and Quantification of Chikungunya Virus MM Parida; SR Santhosh; PK Dash; PV Lakshmana Rao Disclosures Future Virology. 2008;3 (2):179-192. 0 ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of severe lower respiratory infections for which effective treatment options remain limited. Herein, we employed a computational structure-based ...

Few human vaccines are considered as successful as the live-attenuated yellow fever YF17D legacy vaccine that was developed in the 1930s and is still used as essential tool to containing yellow fever ...