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chikungunya, n.|tʃɪkʊŋˈgʊnjə|
[Bantu, prob. Makonde; cf. Yao chi- noun prefix + kunguna to bend, stoop. The word is said to mean ‘that which folds up’.]
A mosquito-borne viral disease of tropical Africa and southern Asia, marked by fever and joint pains of crippling intensity.
1954Gillett & Ross in Ann. Rep. Virus Res. Inst. 1953 (Entebbe) 13 Transmission experiment with Chikungunya A and B virus. 1960A. J. Haddow et al. in Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene LIV. 517 The disease was probably Chikungunya fever, an East African virus infection. 1975Nature 31 July 355/1 A. aegypti..is the only proved natural vector of urban yellow fever; it is also a vector of dengue and chikungunya. 1987Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. v. 115/1 In India and Southeast Asia, chikungunya virus has been implicated in outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever. |