The Chikungunya virus is spread by infected mosquitoes and causes symptoms like fever and severe joint pain. There is no specific medicine to treat the virus, and the best way to prevent it is by ...

This summer 2025 saw a huge uptick in chikungunya virus cases - a mosquito-borne illness - in China's Guangdong Province. Since then, cases have shifted from Southern China to other areas of the globe ...

A new study, published recently in Nature Communications, offers the first-ever map of which parts of the Chikungunya virus trigger the strongest response from the body's T cells. With this map in ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday announced its approval of Ixchiq, the first chikungunya vaccine. The vaccine, which is made by Valneva, is approved for anyone age 18 and older ...

Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA) today announced that Health Canada has approved VIMKUNYA® (recombinant, adsorbed) for ...

FILE - A mosquito feeds at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District on July 26, 2023, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) (Rick Bowmer, Copyright ...

The World Health Organization issued an urgent call for action on Tuesday to prevent a repeat of an epidemic of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus that swept the globe two decades ago, as new ...

Health officials in New York confirmed a person tested positive for the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in what is the first locally acquired case in the United States since 2019. The transmission ...

This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised concerns about a surge in the number of cases of a mosquito-borne viral infection called chikungunya. Between August 2024 and May 2025, more than ...

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