Chikungunya is a disease that is caused by the chikungunya virus which is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. Its name is derived from a word in the Makonde language that means contorted or ...

More information: William M. de Souza et al, Pathophysiology of chikungunya virus infection associated with fatal outcomes, Cell Host & Microbe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.011 The ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) causes an acute febrile disease characterized by severe arthralgia in the small joints.

Climate change is to blame for the spread of a debilitating, mosquito-borne virus that is piling pressure on hospitals in ...

The mosquito-borne disease causes fever and joint pains and can be fatal to newborns. The FDA's approval is expected to speed up the vaccine's global rollout. This year, about 440,000 chikungunya ...

As other Asian countries are suffering through the climate change crisis, Pakistan is on the same track where the summers are getting harsher and winters are becoming milder with the passing of ...

Chikungunya is an emerging global health threat ... and parts of the Americas. It causes fever and debilitating joint pain – as well as muscle aches, joint swelling, headache, nausea, fatigue ...

Some of these agents, like the parasite that causes malaria, have produced illness in humans for thousands of years, while others such as the chikungunya and Zika viruses have emerged only very ...

The virus causes severe joint pain, and cases have been steadily rising in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi since May.

Chikungunya infections began to increase by the end of September 2022 in Paraguay, which declared on Feb. 24 that it was on alert due to the “atypical clinical and epidemiological behavior” of ...

Saint-Herblain (France), October 21, 2024 – Valneva SE (Nasdaq: VALN; Euronext Paris: VLA), a specialty vaccine company, announces today that members of its senior leadership team will present ...

Over four billion people are currently at risk from mosquito-borne infections, including dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. It's ...