As safety flags hang over Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine in the U.S. and beyond, French authorities are clamping down on the shot’s use in older adults. | France’s public health agency has temporarily ...

The country is considered the epicenter of the disease in the Americas, with epidemics reported over the years.

Réunion Island in the French Indian Ocean is grappling with a Chikungunya outbreak, with around 100,000 people—one in every ...

The updated recommendations are pending final approval by the director of the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Proshun Chakraborty is a Senior Correspondent at The Times of India, Nagpur. He covers news on traffic, the zilla parishad, ...

The head of the hospital service on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion on Sunday called for medical reinforcements to ...

RÉUNION ISLAND (Agencies) - Six people have died from chikungunya on the French overseas department of Réunion Island since the start of the year, health officials confirmed on Wednesday. The mosquito ...

This is the first major outbreak of chikungunya in Réunion Island since 2010. A previous epidemic in 2005 and 2006 infected around 260,000 people and led to 225 deaths.

One way this can happen is when people eat beef from cows that have bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as "mad cow disease." The U.S. has had strict regulations in place since the ...

Six people have died from chikungunya on the French overseas department of Réunion Island since the start of the year, health officials confirmed on Wednesday. The mosquito-borne virus has infected ...

Adding a new precaution for the older chikungunya vaccine that uses weakened but live virus: People 65 and older should weigh the risks of benefits of that version of the shot, the panel said.

shots for respiratory syncytial virus, chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease, and meningococcal vaccines. The panel also plans to discuss the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak that has infected over ...