What Is Chikungunya?
Chikungunya
Introduction
Chikungunya is a drastic viral disease which was discovered recently. It is an infection caused by mosquito bites from A. aegypti and A. albopictus which belongs to Aedes genus. This virus is classified in to 4th Group of ssRNA in unassigned order. It belongs to the family of Togaviridae and genus is Alphavirus. The species of this type is named as the Chikungunya virus. Their symptoms are fever with severe joint pains. There is no vaccine developed for Chikungunya. This is found fatal in children and elderly peoples if found infected. This is also making a concern in HIV-Aids patients and peoples living with chronicle disease. Since they are unable to get well soon and majority of the deaths have seen from these cases. …show more content…
These mosquitoes get the infected blood form humans and transmit to a healthy person through bites. The albopictus and aegypti types of mosquitoes are the main carrier of this infection. Few cases are found with an infected mother transferring Chikungunya to its infants. These are also clinical spread through blood transfusion and organ transplant conduct with infected person blood or the organs. The main symptom is associated with severe fever and joint pain in the infected person body. When one gets infected the symptoms may show within a week time. Some may get well soon or take a month time after supportive treatments. The other signs are related with appearance of red color rashes near the sensitive skins. Frequent head ache may be felt time to time. The joint swelling and the muscle ache are the other symptoms caused on the infected …show more content…
The name Chikungunya is a Makonde language describing a severe arthritic symptom. Since the joint pains are associated with this infection, its name is kept by the local name itself. But this virus seems too lived in human blood since 1700 years ago as per studies revealed from the chimpanzees. In the 1970’s it was seen as epidemics in South East Asian countries and African countries since 1952 to 2006. It was an epidemic reported in Indian sub continent in 2005 and there were nearly 5% cases to be found fatal. In 2009 this infection was found with peoples living in Thailand. In the year 2013 the Caribbean island was infected by this disease due to travelers. In 2014 the USA health department announced that there are chances of getting Chikungunya from foreign travelers in their country and all of its airports were kept a vigil on its foreign passengers. But when ever this outbreak was seen this was controlled by proper care and treatment by various countries and reduced the mortality rate is what the W.H.O has
Introduction
Chikungunya is a drastic viral disease which was discovered recently. It is an infection caused by mosquito bites from A. aegypti and A. albopictus which belongs to Aedes genus. This virus is classified in to 4th Group of ssRNA in unassigned order. It belongs to the family of Togaviridae and genus is Alphavirus. The species of this type is named as the Chikungunya virus. Their symptoms are fever with severe joint pains. There is no vaccine developed for Chikungunya. This is found fatal in children and elderly peoples if found infected. This is also making a concern in HIV-Aids patients and peoples living with chronicle disease. Since they are unable to get well soon and majority of the deaths have seen from these cases. …show more content…
These mosquitoes get the infected blood form humans and transmit to a healthy person through bites. The albopictus and aegypti types of mosquitoes are the main carrier of this infection. Few cases are found with an infected mother transferring Chikungunya to its infants. These are also clinical spread through blood transfusion and organ transplant conduct with infected person blood or the organs. The main symptom is associated with severe fever and joint pain in the infected person body. When one gets infected the symptoms may show within a week time. Some may get well soon or take a month time after supportive treatments. The other signs are related with appearance of red color rashes near the sensitive skins. Frequent head ache may be felt time to time. The joint swelling and the muscle ache are the other symptoms caused on the infected …show more content…
The name Chikungunya is a Makonde language describing a severe arthritic symptom. Since the joint pains are associated with this infection, its name is kept by the local name itself. But this virus seems too lived in human blood since 1700 years ago as per studies revealed from the chimpanzees. In the 1970’s it was seen as epidemics in South East Asian countries and African countries since 1952 to 2006. It was an epidemic reported in Indian sub continent in 2005 and there were nearly 5% cases to be found fatal. In 2009 this infection was found with peoples living in Thailand. In the year 2013 the Caribbean island was infected by this disease due to travelers. In 2014 the USA health department announced that there are chances of getting Chikungunya from foreign travelers in their country and all of its airports were kept a vigil on its foreign passengers. But when ever this outbreak was seen this was controlled by proper care and treatment by various countries and reduced the mortality rate is what the W.H.O has