Chikungunya Symptoms

Often symptoms of chikungunya in infected individuals are mild and the infection may go unrecognized, or be misdiagnosed in areas where dengue occurs. To discuss chikungunya symptoms, the one which comes first is about the abrupt onset of fever which is frequently accompanied by chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, joint pain, and rash. The other commonly […]

Chikungunya Causes

Chikungunya is found to be caused by the chikungunya virus, which is classified in the genus Alphavirus and the family is Togaviridae. Aedes aegypti is the primary Aedes mosquito which is responsible for Chikungunya. It is spread by mosquito bites.  Before the genome organization and replication strategy was been discovered, the chikungunya virus was placed […]