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Mosquitoes transmit dengue fever chikungunya and malaria but each disease has its own physiological consequences ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has promised more support to fight chikungunya on La Réunion, after a baby died from the ...
There is an outbreak of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease, in several parts of the country with Colombo and the suburbs the hardest hit. The number of those infected has surged in the past ...
Hospitals on the French Indian Ocean Island of Reunion are reaching breaking point amid a chikungunya virus outbreak that has claimed six lives since January, affecting one out of nine people.
Multiplex real-time PCR-based diagnostic tests facilitate the simultaneous detection of multiple pathogens in a single assay, ...
A panel of federal health experts recommended expanded vaccine options for several diseases, including RSV, meningitis, and chikungunya.
Dianne Elliot took a three-week, seven-country trip that included stops in the United Kingdom, Egypt, India, Cambodia, Jordan, Indonesia and Oman. Some of those countries require ...
Future Virology. 2008;3(2):179-192. Although not listed as a hemorrhagic fever virus, illness caused by CHIKV can be confused with diseases such as dengue or yellow fever, based on the similarity ...
You have this convergence of crises,” says Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud. Here’s what that means and how she and others are ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently updated its vaccine recommendations for three critical diseases: meningococcal, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and chikungunya.