Chikungunya fever


Chikungunya fever

A mosquito-borne alphavirus infection involving pain and severe tenderness in the joints, especially ankles and wrists, fever, skin rash, conjunctivitis and occasionally meningoencephalitis. There is a high viral load and lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia. The vecor in Africa is Aedes aegypti and in the Indian Oceam islands is Aedes albopictus . Mortality is about 1 per 1000 cases.