Chikungunya Virus. Outbreaks and epidemics have since been reported from many African countries as well as from Indian Ocean island nations the Indian subcontinent South East Asia and more recently the Pacific region and Caribbean. The most common clinical form associates fever arthralgia and rash.
Infected mosquitoes can then spread the virus to other people through bites. It is a re-emerging virus that has a risk to spread globally given the expanding dissemination of its mosquito vectors. Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne viral disease that causes fever and severe joint pain.
Chikungunya fever CHIKF is a re-emerging mosquito-borne disease caused by a virus endemic to Africa and Asia.
Infected mosquitoes can then spread the virus to other people through bites. Chikungunya is a viral disease that is spread to humans by mosquitoes. Other symptoms may include headache muscle pain joint swelling or rash. Chikungunya disease is characterized by acute transient febrile arthralgic illness but can also lead to chronic incapacitating arthralgia.