chikungunya
Published 4 November 2026, 00:38
chikungunya — a viral disease with severe joint pain, spread by Aedes mosquitoes
Fever and joint pain that, in some people, lasts for months after the temperature has returned to normal. It is spread by the same mosquitoes as dengue. In Europe there have been local outbreaks in Italy and France — precisely where the tiger mosquito has become established.
Where you come across it. health service warnings about the tiger mosquito, trips to the tropics.
There have been no locally acquired cases in Portugal: everyone diagnosed caught it abroad.
Official website: ecdc.europa.eu/en/chikungunya-virus-disease