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Chikungunya Snapshot Aids to Design Drugs & Vaccines for Viral Arthritis

Chikungunya Snapshot Aids to Design Drugs & Vaccines for Viral Arthritis

High-resolution pictures or atomic-level detail of chikungunya virus interacting with a protein found on the cell surface in the joints was snapped by the team at Washington University Schoo...

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IIT-Roorkee Researchers Discover Molecule That Could Fight Chikungunya

IIT-Roorkee Researchers Discover Molecule That Could Fight Chikungunya

A molecule that exhibits antiviral activity against the chikungunya virus, raising hopes of finding a new way to combat the mosquito-borne viral disease, reveal scientists at the Indian Inst...

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Cell Invasion Mystery of Malarial Parasites Solved

Cell Invasion Mystery of Malarial Parasites Solved

A long-standing mystery of how a protein displayed on the surface of malaria parasites called "TRAP" interacts with human host cells has now been found. A protein "TRAP" has been found to in...

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Cure can Sometimes be Fatal: Iron Supplements can Worsen Malaria Infection

Cure can Sometimes be Fatal: Iron Supplements can Worsen Malaria Infection

Why do iron supplements worsen malarial infection, the scientist at National Institutes of Health have found a possible explanation for this. They found that extra iron interferes with ferro...

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Mosquito and Tick-Borne Viral Diseases Rise with Climatic Change

Mosquito and Tick-Borne Viral Diseases Rise with Climatic Change

Humans who have to travel all over the world face different climatic change, thus prompting the spread of disease-bearing insects to wider parts of the world. The research was conducted by t...

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New Insights on Chikungunya Virus and Chronic Joint Pain

New Insights on Chikungunya Virus and Chronic Joint Pain

Chikungunya causes chronic joint pain after infection. However, the virus that was thought to be present in the synovial fluid of the joints was not detected after 22 months of infection, re...

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Delhi Has Reported 3,829 and 502 Cases Of Dengue and Chikungunya So Far

Delhi Has Reported 3,829 and 502 Cases Of Dengue and Chikungunya So Far

Delhi has recorded another 3,829 cases of dengue and 502 cases of chikungunya so far this year said the civic agencies on Monday. While the national capital has witnessed a total of fo...

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Homeopathy Offers a Promising Relief to Chikungunya

Homeopathy Offers a Promising Relief to Chikungunya

Homeopathy treatment may offer a promising relief to the mosquito-borne viral disease,chikungunya. Its a form of viral fever caused by an Alpha virus that is transmitted to humans by the bit...

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Chikungunya can Affect Your Eyes too

Chikungunya can Affect Your Eyes too

Chikungunya and Dengue fever have been the two most distressing disease outbreaks for the past two months in Delhi NCR. By now every must be aware that Chikungunya is caused by a vir...

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Spain On High Alert After First Ever Case Of Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus Detected

Spain On High Alert After First Ever Case Of Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus Detected

The first case of the mosquito-borne viral disease chikungunya has been detected in Spain. A 60-year-old man in the eastern province of Valencia, was "most likely" infected in Gandia, ...

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New Assay Developed in US Helps Detect Chikungunya Virus Within an Hour

New Assay Developed in US Helps Detect Chikungunya Virus Within an Hour

A new assay developed in the United States helps to detect the virus that causes chikungunya (CHIKV) within an hour. This is expected to cut down the waiting time for results of laboratory t...

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Colombia Reports 1.8 Lakh Chikungunya Cases, 25 Deaths in Less Than A Year

Colombia Reports 1.8 Lakh Chikungunya Cases, 25 Deaths in Less Than A Year

The National Health Institute has reported that 25 people have succumbed to chikungunya virus in Colombia, South America, in less than a year. Since the illness was identified in Colom...

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Chikungunya Virus may Soon Spread to the US

Chikungunya Virus may Soon Spread to the US

Chikungunya is mosquito-borne viral disease that causes fever, headache, severe joint pain and rash on the body. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has revealed that ...

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Chikungunya Cases Hit Nearly 200 in Puerto Rico, 2 in Florida: Report

Chikungunya Cases Hit Nearly 200 in Puerto Rico, 2 in Florida: Report

Nearly 200 confirmed cases of the chikungunya virus in Puerto Rico and the first two cases of the mosquito-borne disease in Florida have been reported, say health authorities. P...

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Peru Reports Its First Case of the Chikungunya Virus

Peru Reports Its First Case of the Chikungunya Virus

Peru reported its first cases of the chikungunya virus in two people who recently traveled to the Dominican Republic. Health ministry director Henry Rebaza said the man and woman who ...

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