Recently published in #Viruses, Increased Mortality During 2025 #Chikungunya Epidemic in #RéunionIsland, #France, while few dozens deaths were officially due to chikungunya, #ExcessMortality indicate hundreds deaths associated with epidemic
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Microcephaly-like phenotype triggered by novel reassortant and prototypic Oropouche Virus strains in brain organoids Oropouche virus (OROV) is an emerging arbovirus currently spreading across South America, with increasing reports of neurological manifestations, severe systemic disease, and congenital abnormalities....

#Oropouche and #microcephaly-like phenotypes.

In @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social #OROV infects human #brain #organoids collapsing neural progenitors, disrupting architecture.
Congrats Gabrielle Brum Silva, co-authors
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#MaternalHealth #Neurovirology #Arboviruses

Modelling and forecasting a potential chikungunya outbreak in France, 2025 Mainland France is experiencing an unprecedented number of autochthonous cases of chikungunya in multiple locations, primarily in southern France, likely linked to the recent outbreak in La Reunion an...

Our new work on modelling the French 2025 chikungunya outbreaks. Led by Sandeep Tegar, our amazing PhD student at @ukceh.bsky.social and Glasgow. #VBD 🦟

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Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in Chikungunya fever detection by developing a kit solution based on rapid qPCR technology, allowing for the entire detection process within just 30 minutes, according to a laboratory based in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province.

West Nile, chikungunya, dengue: Breaking down summer’s mosquito-borne diseases The skinny on what those little buzzers could give you.

West Nile virus in Italy, chikungunya in China, dengue in France.

With summer in full bloom, mosquitoes are doing what mosquitoes do: keeping you up at night and spreading vector-borne viruses.

Is chikungunya really “rarely fatal,” or are deaths missed? Excess-mortality and autopsies point underdiagnosis.
Spoiler: the rarity may be in detection.
Increased #Mortality During 2025 #Chikungunya #Epidemic in #Réunion
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#Epidemiology #GlobalHealth #ExcessDeaths