What is chicken guniya?

Answer 1

Chickengunya :
Its an emerging epidemic in India, currently spread into many districts of andhra pradesh and maharashtra and karnataka affecting thousands of people each day.
Its falsly called as chicken gunya or chickengunya.. but it has no correlation with chickens. The confusion was created as the infection came simultaneusly withg bird flue in India.
Other names: Chikungunya (from the Swahili word for "stooped walk," or "that which bends up" depending on who you believe, referring to the posture of a person suffering from the disease)
Its also called as aakdya (stiffness) and maakdya (ape gait), in local languages in India. Marathi language!
Also called as CHIK or CHK.
how does chickungunya spread?
Virus is an arbovirus, spreads through arthropode vector the Aedes Egypti * and * Aedes albopictus, better known as the nasty Asian tiger mosquito, the same as Dengue or Yellow fever. Mosquito bites in day time unlike malaria. Size of this misquito is smaller than the anopheles.
how does it (Chikungunya) manifest?
It causes more of morbidity and less of mortality.
Illness is more debilitating and causes significant discomfort.
Deaths are not common.
Children and pregnants are more vulnerable.
symptoms
starts with sudden onset fever.
fever can be of high grade upto 102 F.
Continuous fever.. with partial relief by medicines.
Also there is significant muscle stiffness, myalgia and joint pains involving various joints mainly ankle and knees.
Rarely it has swollen small joints.
Symptoms usually last for 3 - 5 days,
but some joint pain or myalgia persists upto 2 weeks-2months.
Body platelet count decreases in some cases manifesting as petichae while there is also neutropenia at times.
All investigations may also be normal.

KNOW MORE ABOUT CHICKUN GUNYA ; Chikungunya
http://www.enivd.de/CHIC_RES.HTM

Answer 2

One need not be afraid as it is a tropical endemic disease and not fatal, cures on its own. but antibiotics are used for preventing secondary infections and leave of absence for some weeks at the most settles it.It is highly debilitating too.To be aware when wisting the places.