If untreated, the fever can re-occur approximately every other week. No vaccine for prevention, but treatment is available. A viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes. Symptoms include fever, headache, nausea, a rash, and the abrupt onset of pain in one or more joints. Deaths rarely occur from Chikungunya fever, but residual joint stiffness can last for weeks or months.
Treatment is limited and no vaccine is available.
Large outbreaks have occurred of this nonfatal viral infection which is transmitted by gnats or midges found in some urban areas of the Amazon Basin. Symptoms include abrupt high fever, severe headache, muscle and joint pain, nausea, and diarrhoea. Treatment is limited and no vaccine is available. A viral infection transmitted by mosquito bites. Symptoms include the abrupt onset of low-grade fever, joint pain and a rash.