But this season, the award for the most surprising and probably temporarily debilitating spread of a vector-borne disease goes to the Chikungunya virus. A relative backbencher, which surfaced ...

Additional municipal commissioner Lalit Kumar assured the attendees that diseases such as dengue, malaria and chikungunya could be avoided by taking simple yet diligent cautionary measures ...

Meanwhile, another mosquito-borne viral disease, chikungunya is also on the rise ... (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of ...

The tally includes 19 cases reported in the week leading up to November 9, according to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's ...

Kolkata is experiencing a surge in chikungunya cases, with hundreds affected by fever, joint pain, and shivering. While dengue cases remain low, chikungunya has seen a late increase, particularly ...

WITH the festival season leading to a surge in health issues like diarrhoea, malaria, dengue and chikungunya, the declining ...

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 ...

The historical accounts of CHIKV spread from Africa to Asia and perhaps the Americas were supported by the first phylogenetic studies of the virus. [33] These studies concluded that CHIKV ...

Chikungunya virus has spiraled into a full-blown epidemic in the metropolitan city as the caseload continues to mount. However, the high cost of diagnostic tests and lack of specific treatments ...

It is these symptoms that give Chikungunya its name, which means “to become contorted” in the Kimakonde language from Tanzania, where the virus was first discovered in 1952. “Due to climate ...

Similarly, Sadia Khatun, another chikungunya patient disclosed that two of her children too had acquired the disease. “We were unable to walk for several days. The disease is spreading due to ...