Claire is a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research in the UK. She studies mosquito transmitted viruses, such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses, and how these interact with the immune system of both humans and mosquitoes.
Delhi has been hit by a chikungunya epidemic – what is this disease?
Sep 20, 2016 06:10 am UTC| Health
Chikungunya is not a name that rolls easily off the tongue. It is a Swahili word meaning that which bends up. It describes the symptoms of this crippling arthritic disease, a disease which is currently gripping Delhi in...
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