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The Chikungunya virus is spread by infected mosquitoes and causes symptoms like fever and severe joint pain. There is no specific medicine to treat the virus, and the best way to prevent it is by ...

Components in mosquito saliva enhance the infectivity of viruses, including dengue, Zika fever and Japanese encephalitis, that the insects transmit to humans, a study has found.

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A case of Chikungunya virus on Long Island was locally acquired, health officials say Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's Digest ...

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis was once the site of an epidemic that inspired the name of a rare mosquito-borne virus across the Midwest. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), St.