How to Use chikungunya in a Sentence

chikungunya

noun
  • What are the symptoms of chikungunya?
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The virus, called chikungunya, causes fever and extreme joint pain.
    — Jarbas Barbosa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • They have been known to spread dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The species in the study is the same kind of mosquito that spreads viruses such as dengue and chikungunya among humans.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The list also includes dengue fever, leprosy, and chikungunya.
    — Paula Andalo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Health experts predict diseases such as dengue and chikungunya will return.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The viruses that cause hand, foot, and mouth disease, chikungunya, and dengue fever are quite distinct from each other and not the same.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • But there’s no vaccine for malaria, chikungunya, or the human botfly.
    — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • There is no cure for chikungunya, and treatment depends on the management of symptoms.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Others can cause acute infections, such as chikungunya and Lassa fever.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Stopping the spread The chikungunya virus is not transmitted among humans.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The appearance of chikungunya in New York should be cause for concern but not panic.
    — Jarbas Barbosa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The chikungunya virus, which is transmitted by infected mosquitoes, can cause fever and joint pain.
    — Jade Walker, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • No new cases of chikungunya fever were reported, and no local cases have been reported to date.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2018
  • Aedes aegypti can also spread the zika and chikungunya viruses.
    — Ryanne Mena, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Hong Kong reported its first case of chikungunya in a 12-year-old boy Monday.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, the real dangers have more to do with tropical diseases such as malaria, cholera, dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya.
    — Estêvão Rafael Fernandes, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Previous studies of the drugs’ usefulness against the dengue and chikungunya viruses in humans didn’t pan out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Then in 2006, more than a million people in India may have caught chikungunya.
    — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The blood-sucking bug can also transmit viruses such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika to people.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The blood-sucking bug also can transmit viruses such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika to people.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2020
  • Oxitec, the researchers behind the experiment, are looking to stop the spread of dengue and chikungunya.
    — Alyssa Fiorentino, Woman's Day, 26 Jan. 2015
  • There are other pestilential concerns, among them dengue fever and chikungunya, a virus that swept through the Caribbean a few years ago.
    — Matthew Segal, Los Angeles Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Zika virus is a flavivirus, part of the same family as yellow fever, West Nile, chikungunya and dengue fever.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • For the chikungunya virus, the skin that didn’t get the treatment harbored the virus at 600 times the amount of the tissue that received the skin cream.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
  • There is no specific treatment or widely available vaccine for chikungunya.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Dengue, chikungunya and malaria are also prevalent in Southeast Asia.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Its primary symptoms include high fever, rashes and intense joint pain — similar to those of chikungunya.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • There has been an outbreak of chikungunya in Guangdong Province, which can cause fever, joint pain, headache, muscle pain, joint swelling, and rash.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Primarily spread to humans from mosquitoes, the chikungunya virus can cause a variety of symptoms from fever to joint pain.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2025

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