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The number of travel-related cases of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral infection, has nearly tripled in England during the ...
UK health officials warn of a sharp rise in travel-associated chikungunya and the first reported Oropouche virus cases linked ...
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What is the Chikungunya virus?

The Chikungunya virus has been in the news lately after individuals who took the vaccine to prevent it were hospitalized.
Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can get to many countries if it finds the right hosts ...
Mosquito-borne chikungunya virus has caused an outbreak in China, but public health experts say the risk for spread and ...
Chikungunya fever, an acute infectious disease transmitted to humans by bites from infected mosquitoes — typically the yellow fever (Aedes aegypti) or the Asian tiger (Aedes albopictus) mosquito — is ...
Environment minister Tse Chin-wan says they will be used to carry and spray mosquito insecticide in areas that are difficult for control teams to access on foot.
Holiday makers have been urged to take precautions against mosquito bites while abroad amid a rise in cases of the ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning travelers about a new virus in China called chikungunya. In ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a travel warning following an outbreak of a mosquito-borne ...
Chikungunya is a disease caused by a virus of the same name. The chikungunya virus was first identified in people sickened ...
Chikungunya is caused by a virus that can be passed to humans by infected mosquitoes, with most cases occurring in Africa, ...