Chikungunya Virus

Chikungunya Virus. Data Kementerian Kesehatan RI menyebutkan sepanjang tahun 2017 terdapat 126 kasus. The virus was first isolated from a febrile patient in 195253 in the Makonde plateau Tanzania and has been named after the Makonde word for that which bends you up describing the characteristic posture of patients suffering severe joint pains due.

Chikungunya adalah infeksi virus yang ditandai dengan serangan demam dan nyeri sendi secara mendadak. CHIKV is a viral disease transmitted to people by the bites of infected mosquitoes. Symptoms usually begin 37 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito.

Chikungunya virus CHIKV is a mosquito-borne alphavirus and belongs to the Togaviridae family.

Chikungunya virus CHIKV a mosquito-transmitted alphavirus is recurring in epidemic waves. Chikungunya chik-un-GUN-yuh is a viral illness transmitted by mosquitoes that causes the sudden onset of fever and severe joint pain. The most common clinical form associates fever arthralgia and rash. Data Kementerian Kesehatan RI menyebutkan sepanjang tahun 2017 terdapat 126 kasus.