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What is chikungunya?

Chikungunya fever is relatively a rare form of mosquito transmitted viral fever caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus of the genus Alphavirus (family Togaviridae) found in parts of Africa, India, Thailand and Malaysia. It causes febrile illness with debilitating joint pains and is spread by mosquito bites from the Aedes aegypti [...]