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11-24-2006, 03:29 PM

kavru hari mata kiyanawada mokakda me "chiken gunya" kiyanne kiyala.
roga lakshana monawada?

Chikungunya is a relatively rare form of viral fever caused by an alphavirus that is spread by mosquito bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito, though recent research by the Pasteur Institute in Paris claims the virus has suffered a mutation that enables it to be transmitted by Aedes albopictus (Tiger mosquito). This was the cause of the plague in the Indian Ocean and a threat to the Mediterranean coast at present, requiring urgent meetings of health officials in France, Italy, and Spain.
The name is derived from the Makonde word meaning "that which bends up" in reference to the stooped posture developed as a result of the arthritic[1] and W.H.R. Lumsden[2] in 1955, following an outbreak on the Makonde Plateau, along the border between Tanganyika and Mozambique, in 1952. Chikungunya is closely related to O'nyong'nyong virus[3]. symptoms of the disease. The disease was first described by Marion Robinson
Chikungunya is generally not fatal. However, in 2005-2006, 200 deaths have been associated with chikungunya on Réunion island and a widespread outbreak in India (especially in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, and Andhra Pradesh). Andhra Pradesh saw a huge outbreak which spread to neighbouring states. As of September 2006, after the flood and heavy rains in Rajasthan in August 2006, India, thousands of cases have been detected in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur, and Chittorgarh districts and also in adjoining regions of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
The European Network for Diagnostics of "Imported" Viral Diseases (ENIVD) claims new phylogenetic variants of virus which are fatal have been identified on Réunion.
As of October 12, 2006 in the southern Indian state of Kerala, 125 deaths are attributed to Chikungunya and majority of the casualties were reported in the district of Alapuzha [mainly in Cherthala Taluk]. This latest outbreak in Alappuzha is supposed to have transferred from Parassala, the southernmost point of Kerala state where a recent outbreak was reported before the episodes of Alappuzha started. Kerala government has termed this as an epidemic outbreak, whereas the Tamil Nadu government has denied that the deaths caused in the state were due to chikungunya.

1 Symptoms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya#Symptoms)
2 Treatment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya#Treatment)
3 Epidemiology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya#Epidemiology)
4 Preventive measures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya#Preventive_measures)
5 Linguistic derivation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya#Linguistic_derivation)