Chikungunya Disease

Chikungunya (pronounced chick-un-GOON-ya) is a viral disease similar to Dengue Fever in that it spreads to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito. Long a plague to tropical areas of Asia, India, and Africa—Chikungunya has infected roughly 250,000 Caribbean inhabitants (in mosquito-dominated areas like Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Haiti, and Martinique) since it’s arrival in […]

A serious case of the tropical disease “chikungunya” has now been found in the United States. It marks the first case of chikungunya acknowledged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), though more than thirty U.S. states have already reported cases of the disease. Chikungunya is a debilitating, mosquito-borne virus typically found in […]