It may seem entirely ordinary in the beginning: a mosquito bite, slight fever, and possibly some joint pain. That mosquito bite, though, has become a very serious problem for thousands in China as of ...

China’s Guangdong Province is battling its worst-ever chikungunya outbreak, with thousands of infections spreading across major cities and nearby regions. Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, the disease ...

US health officials are urging travellers to sharpen their mosquito-bite defences as outbreaks of chikungunya, a painful and currently untreatable mosquito-borne virus, sweep across several tropical ...