Around 200 s/d in the last 300 years the virus chikungu him CHIK was the virus to the primate animal in the middle of the forest or savannah in Africa. The fauna of the primate that was considered as continuatio of the virus was the nation baboon (Papio sp), Cercopithecus sp.The cycle in the forest (sylvatic cycle) among the fauna of the primate was carried out by Aedes mosquitoes sp (Ae africanus, Aeluteocephalus, Ae opok, Ae. furciper, Ae taylori, Ae cordelierri.
Scientific authentication that covered the isolation and the identification of the virus just succeeded in being carried out when the plague in Tanzania happening 1952-1953.
Well the virus and his illness were afterwards given by the name in accordance with the local language (Swahili), was based on the sign to the sufferer.
Then was present chikungu him that was significant (the position of the body) bent or buckled that which contorts or bends up. After several old, nature of the virus chikungu him that originally cycle from the fauna primate-mosquitoes-fauna of the primate, could also bersiklus humankind-mosquitoes-humankind. Not all the viruses could from the animal change his cycle like that. In the area of the settlement (the person who has moved to the city cycle), the virus cycle chikungu him was helped by Ae mosquitoes aegypti.
Several countries in Africa that it was reported was attacked by the virus chikungu him was Zimbabwe, Kongo, Burundi, Angola, Gabon, Guinean Bissau, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, Central Africa, and Bostwana. After Africa, the virus chikungu him was reported in Bangkok (1958), Cambodia, Vietnam, India and Sri Lanka (1964), the Philippines and Indonesia (1973).Then was present chikungu him that was significant (the position of the body) bent or buckled that which contorts or bends up. After several old, nature of the virus chikungu him that originally cycle from the fauna primate-mosquitoes-fauna of the primate, could also bersiklus humankind-mosquitoes-humankind. Not all the viruses could from the animal change his cycle like that. In the area of the settlement (the person who has moved to the city cycle), the virus cycle chikungu him was helped by Ae mosquitoes aegypti.
Chikungunya had been reported attacked three American corps of the peace volunteer (the US Peace Corp Volunteers) that was assigned in the Philippines, 1968. Was not known definitely how this virus spread international.
Considering the spreading of the international virus relatively slow, the possibility of this spreading happened together with the move of mosquitoes.
In Africa still had again the virus illness with the sign was similar chikungu him, namely the O virus? Nyong nyong (ONN). The term "o?" Nyong-nyong was taken from the regional language in Acholi, Uganda, meant the weakness of the foundation.
