Chikungunya Virus Net is the web resource for anyone interested in chikungunya. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an insect-borne virus, of the genus Alphavirus, that is spread by Aedes mosquitoes. Chikungunya infection causes fever and severe joint pain. Other symptoms include muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and rash. The disease shares some clinical signs with dengue, and can be misdiagnosed in areas where dengue is common. There have been recent breakouts of chikungunya in Africa, Asia and the Indian subcontinent. In recent decades mosquito vectors of chikungunya have spread to Europe and the Americas. In 2007, disease transmission was reported for the first time in Europe. There is no cure for the disease. Treatment is focused on relieving the symptoms.

The objectives of Chikungunya Virus Net are to be the public and professional information resource for chikungunya and to serve as a network in the exchange of information and news related to chikungunya.

• Emergent BioSolutions sees promising results in study phase of chikungunya virus vaccine - Homeland Preparedness News
  Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:51 GMT
• Emergent BioSolutions Announces Interim Results From Phase 2 Study Evaluating CHIKV-VLP, Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Candidate - GlobeNewswire
  Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:30 GMT
• 17 chikungunya virus infections in Depok - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post
  Fri, 05 Apr 2019 07:00 GMT
• Congo: 4000 cases of Chikungunya reported [The Morning Call] - africanews
  Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:30 GMT
• VALNEVA to Present on Lyme and Chikungunya Vaccine Candidates at the 19th World Vaccine Congress - Outbreak News Today
  Wed, 10 Apr 2019 07:00 GMT
• Malaria infections may be masking the extent of the emerging chikungunya epidemic - Medical Xpress
  Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:11 GMT
• News Scan for Apr 16, 2019 - CIDRAP
  Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:31 GMT
• Chembio's zika, dengue and chikungunya multiplex test approved in Brazil - Seeking Alpha
  Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:41 GMT
• Delhi: 3 Chikungunya, 5 dengue cases reported so far - The New Indian Express
  Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:00 GMT
• Novos sintomas são investigados - Tribuna do Norte - Natal
  Wed, 27 Mar 2019 07:00 GMT
• How climate change will put billions more at risk of mosquito-borne diseases - PBS NewsHour
  Thu, 28 Mar 2019 07:00 GMT
• Large Parts Of Europe Could Be At Risk From Diseases Spread By Insects - Tech Times
  Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:41 GMT
• Climate change, air travel widening horizons of dengue, chikungunya - Medibulletin
  Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:30 GMT
• Chances of dengue and chikungunya increase as the temperature goes up - TheHealthSite
  Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:34 GMT
• Two students test positive for chikungunya in Khunti - Times of India
  Sun, 31 Mar 2019 07:00 GMT

• PRO/AH/EDR> Undiagnosed resp. illness - Guyana (02): (BA) manganese mine, fatal, update
  Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:27:39 -0400
  Respiratory Illness -- Guyana
  Public health officials have ruled out swine flu (H1N1), Zika, Chikungunya, dengue, and influenza A and B as possible causes of the recent spate of illnesses and death in Matthew's Ridge. Thus far, there has been no evidence of person-to-person transmission of infection. It is noted that only persons who were directly exposed to one common area became ill.
  As of Sunday, 31 Mar [2019], a response team comprising the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Surveillance, EH, doctors, and nurses


• PRO/AH/EDR> Unidentified febrile disease - Brazil: RFI
  Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:49:43 -0400
  Fever -- Brazil
  Infectious disease physicians in the state health network of the Rio Grande do Sul Federal University UFRN) did not confirm that the disease, having symptoms similar to chikungunya [virus infection], observed this past week in 140 residents of 2 neighborhoods of Tirol and Petropolis in Natal [state] is in fact chikungunya. Blood tests done on Sat 23 Mar 2019 on samples from 6 individuals detected the presence of that virus, but the specialist physicians do not discard other hypotheses.