The Trump administration's FDA and CDC is advising U.S. patients using the drug Ixchiq to hold off while U.S. health ...

The European Union's health regulator said on Wednesday it was reviewing French drugmaker Valneva's chikungunya vaccine after ...

Future Virology. 2008;3(2):179-192. Although not listed as a hemorrhagic fever virus, illness caused by CHIKV can be confused with diseases such as dengue or yellow fever, based on the similarity ...

1 The chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus, is the causative agent of this serious illness. To facilitate viral RNA replication, CHIKV creates distinctive organelles called spherules on the ...

Now, in a recently released study of 117 children who were hospitalized between June and September 2024 (during the monsoon) ...

Deaths linked to Chikungunya virus infection were estimated at 0.1% in La Réunion. Chronic pain is of nociceptive but also neuropathic nature. Salicylates and other NSAIDs used in adults should ...

updated its recommendation for use of Valneva’s single-dose chikungunya vaccine IXCHIQ ® for the prevention of disease caused by the chikungunya virus (CHIKV). ACIP maintained its current ...

About chikungunyaChikungunya is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the chikungunya virus (CHIKV). In the past 20 years, the virus has emerged across several regions in Asia, Africa, and the ...

Ixchiq -- the first preventive shot against chikungunya virus to be authorized in the Europe as well as the U.S. -- contains a weakened strain of the virus that triggers the immune system to make ...