chikungunya
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Related to Chicken Kunya: Chikungunya virus, Chikungunya fever
chikungunya
(chē′ko͞on-go͞on′yə)n.
An acute infectious disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus, characterized by fever, rash, and joint pain, and seen primarily in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. Also called chicken guinea disease.
chikungunya
An acute alpha-virus infection of the Sahara, tropics and subtropics, affecting children in rainy months.Clinical findings
Fever, arthralgia and rash, which may in part be a “spillover” from the viral cycle maintained in wild primates.
Vectors
Aedes aegypti, A africanus, A furcifer.
chi·kun·gun·ya
(chik'ŭn-gŭn'yă)A febrile viral disease resembling dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes.
[Swahili, that which bends]