Chikungunya is a kind of viral fever caused by Alphaviruses that is spread by mosquito bites from Aedes aegypti species. Its name comes from a word in the Makonde language which means "curved up", referring to the body that bend due to arthritis symptoms of this disease.The main symptoms of Chikungunya disease is the body suddenly felt a fever followed by rheumatic pain in joints. In fact, because one of the typical symptom is the emergence of a sense of fatigue, pain, pain may also arise in bone, there is a name it as fever or flu bone. The symptoms are similar to dengue virus infection with a bit of difference on certain things. The virus is transferred from one patient to another person via mosquitoes, including Aedes aegypti. The virus is transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes will breed in the human body.
This virus attacks all ages, both children and adults in endemic areas. The patient will experience sudden high fever for five days, so the term is also known as fever of five days. In young children begins with sudden fever, skin redness. Red rashes that appear after 3-5 days. The eyes are usually accompanied by red signs such as flu. Febrile seizures are common child. In older children, fever is usually followed by pain in muscles and joints, and enlarged lymph nodes occurred.
In adults, symptoms of sore joints and muscles are very dominant and to cause temporary paralysis due to pain when walking. Sometimes arise nausea to vomiting. In general, the child's fever lasts for only three days with no or very little bleeding and shock are found. The difference with dengue hemorrhagic fever, on Chikungunya no bleeding, shock (shock) and not cause death.
