In the south Thailand district of Songkhla over 6,379 people caught the insect-borne Chikungunya virus since the beginning of this year.
It is spread by mosquito and get dengue fever symptoms.
Chikungunya (from Wikipedia)
Chikungunya (in the Makonde language “that which bends up”) virus (CHIKV) is an insect-borne virus, of the genus, Alphavirus, that is transmitted to humans by virus-carrying Aedes mosquitoes. there have been recent outbreaks of CHIKV associated with severe morbidity.
CHIKV causes an illness with symptoms similar to dengue fever. CHIKV manifests itself with an acute febrile phase of the illness lasts only two to five days, followed by a prolonged arthralgic disease that affects the joints of the extremities. The pain associated with CHIKV infection of the joints persists for weeks or months.
The incubation period of Chikungunya disease is from two to four days. Symptoms of the disease include a fever up to 40 °C (104 °F), a petechial or maculopapular rash of the trunk and occasionally the limbs, and arthralgia or arthritis affecting multiple joints. Other nonspecific symptoms can include headache, conjunctival infection, and slight photophobia.
Typically, the fever lasts for two days and then ends abruptly. However, other symptoms, namely joint pain, intense headache, insomnia and an extreme degree of prostration last for a variable period; usually for about 5 to 7 days. Patients have complained of joint pains for much longer time periods depending on their age.
— Wikipedia
No you do not die from it. You just feel like someone breaking your joints and bones same as dengue.
this is a bit scary, my baby of 6-month got dengue last year, it alarmed me so much of her condition.
now here’s another virus of the same mosquito, is this a deadly viral infection?