Chikungunya: a potentially emerging epidemic?

• Main Authors: Michelle M Thiboutot (Author), Senthil Kannan (Author), Omkar U Kawalekar (Author), Devon J Shedlock (Author), Amir S Khan (Author), Gopalsamy Sarangan (Author), Padma Srikanth (Author), David B Weiner (Author), Karuppiah Muthumani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne emerging pathogen that has a major health impact in humans and causes fever disease, headache, rash, nausea, vomiting, myalgia, and arthralgia. Indigenous to tropical Africa, recent large outbreaks have been reported in parts of South East Asia and several of it...