Chikungunya virus

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Etymology

From Makonde chikungunya (“that which bends up”), from kungunyala (“to dry up or become contorted”).

Proper noun

Chikungunya virus

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Togaviridae – a mosquito-borne human pathogen.

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