Chikungunya Virus Net is the web resource for anyone interested in chikungunya. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an insect-borne virus, of the genus Alphavirus, that is spread by Aedes mosquitoes. Chikungunya infection causes fever and severe joint pain. Other symptoms include muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and rash. The disease shares some clinical signs with dengue, and can be misdiagnosed in areas where dengue is common. There have been recent breakouts of chikungunya in Africa, Asia and the Indian subcontinent. In recent decades mosquito vectors of chikungunya have spread to Europe and the Americas. In 2007, disease transmission was reported for the first time in Europe. There is no cure for the disease. Treatment is focused on relieving the symptoms.

The objectives of Chikungunya Virus Net are to be the public and professional information resource for chikungunya and to serve as a network in the exchange of information and news related to chikungunya.

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  Chikungunya -- Honduras
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  "Doctor, I will never normally work and live again; joint pain prevents me that." This was expressed by a patient in La Virginia, Colombia 3 years after having been infected with chikungunya virus (CHIKV).
  After more than 5 decades of obscurity, probably due to lack of studies, many clinical consequences of CHIKV began to be reported, particularly rheumatic ones, after the outbreaks in Réunion Island and India (Javelle et al, 2015) during the epidemic wave that

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