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Chikungunya: Introduction

Chikungunya: A rare viral disease usually transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by fever, rash and severe arthritis. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Chikungunya is available below.

Symptoms of Chikungunya

• Fever
• Headache
• Severe arthralgia
• Backache
• Rash
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Home Diagnostic Testing

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Chikungunya?

• Misdiagnosis of Chikungunya

Chikungunya: Deaths

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Causes of Chikungunya

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Disease Topics Related To Chikungunya

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Chikungunya:

• Fever with chills
• Maculopapular rash
• Dengue fever
• Aedes eygyptii
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Misdiagnosis and Chikungunya

Sinusitis is overdiagnosed: There is a tendency to give a diagnosis of sinusitis, when the condition is really a harmless complication of another infection, such as a common cold....read more »

Whooping cough often undiagnosed: Although most children in the Western world have been immunized against whooping cough (also called "pertussis"), this protection wears off...read more »

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Chikungunya: Research Doctors & Specialists

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• Ear, Nose & Throat Specialists:
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  • Pediatric Otolaryngology (Child Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist)
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Chikungunya: Animations

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Research about Chikungunya

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Clinical Trials for Chikungunya

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Chikungunya include:

• CuraChik : Double Blind Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trial : Efficacy and Safety of Chloroquine as Therapeutic Treatment of Chikungunya Disease. - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Chloroquine
• more trials...»

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Chikungunya: Broader Related Topics

• Viral diseases
• Conditions involving a pathogen
• Flu-like conditions
• more types...»

Types of Chikungunya

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